Dancing blades, Silks, and Sakura Blossoms

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Sess (in the background): Someone wants more with me and Kagome!

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Dancing Blades, Silks, and Sakura Blossoms
Chapter Seven

As sunlight spread over the horizon, an evil presence lingered outside the walls of the Eastern Lord’s palace. A small child, garbed in black with the same colored hair, watched with unblinking, empty, white eyes as she held a mirror, relaying what was happening to a certain evil hanyou that watched from afar in the mirror in a similar child’s hands that was garbed in pure white with white hair and the same, empty, eyes of deep black.

Naraku grinned. “So, InuYasha, you have claimed the elven princess, Yumi. A fine choice indeed, but I wonder? What will you do when you lose this precious creature that you hold so tightly?” he asked the darkness.

Kikyo, whom sat beside him in the room, was furious. “What? He dare take that bitch? He is supposed to go to hell with me! I will kill her, as I will kill my incarnation, and take him back!” she swore aloud.

Naraku glanced over at the once pure priestess. She was as corrupt as he had wished her to be when he was Onigumo, only he had wanted to corrupt her himself. He was growing tired of the clay bitch and was now waiting for the perfect moment to destroy her. He lifted a delicately clawed hand and raised it to Kikyo. As he was about to strike, a plan formed in his mind. What if Kikyo were to take the e lad lady and bring her to him? He was certain that would enrage InuYasha enough to kill her, therefore killing two birds with one stone: causing pain to InuYasha and ridding himself of the uselessly irritating Kikyo.

“Why not punish him, my dear Kikyo?” he asked.

Kikyo looked over to her hanyou companion. “Punish? How?”

“Bring Yumi to me and then InuYasha will be yours.”

“What of my incarnation?” she asked.

“She is with Sesshomaru, no longer a threat. Harming her would only bring him upon you, and you only want InuYasha.”

“True. Very well then, I will bring you the elven whore that has entrapped my InuYasha,” she said as she stood and headed out the door.

Naraku chuckloftloftly as the door closed behind the priestess. He then waved a hand. “Kagura.”

A red light appeared and Kagura’s shadow came to him. “Yes, my lord?”

“Go with Kikyo, and make sure Lady Yumi makes it here. I have plans for her.”

“And if Kikyo should fall?”

“Then she falls. Now, go!”

“Hai, my lord,” Kagura said as she bowed to Naraku and the light faded.

Naraku grinned, his plan to bring harm to Kagome had failed, but InuYasha would not be so lucky.

****

Meanwhile, back at the palace, a certain spell had worn of a particular dojo on the grounds. Sesshomaru and Kagome watched as the spell scroll, that had been stuck to the doors, floated to the ground. Kagome took in a deep breath as she and her mate then opened the doors.

“InuYasha?” Kagome called.

She then turned bright red and turned away. Sesshomaru only smirked. There, not to far from the door, lay InuYasha and Yumi. Their clothes were scattered about them and they now lay in a tangle of limbs as they slept peacefully. Sesshomaru shook his head as he closed the doors to give them a bit of privacy.

“Well, it seems you plan worked,” Jin said as he glanced to the bright red Kagome.

“Indeed, it has. We should leave them be,” Sesshomaru suggested.

“Are they sleeping?”

“In a very… prone position.”

“That was a side to InuYasha I didn’t necessarily wish to see,” Kagome added.

Jin snickered and then went into full on laughter. It was at that time, that Miroku, whom had been watching over his spell all night, awoke. “Did it work?” he asked groggily.

Kagome nodded. “Yup, no more longing sighs for a while from those two. Now all we have to do is set you up with someone, Miroku. Now did didn’t you tell me that we have a cousin that would be interested in Miroku?”

“Hai, Yuji would be very interested in our dear monk. I didn’t know he went that way?” Jin answered with a smirk.

“For the last time, I am not into guys!” Miroku grumbled.

Kagome and Jin then burst into laughter. Sesshomaru rolled his eyes as the two continued to taunt the poor monk. Suddenly, there was a gruff clearing of someone’s throat. The four turned to see InuYasha, clad in his hakema, leaning against the door frame.

“Good morning InuYasha, sleep well?” Kagome asked.

InuYasha narrowed his eyes. “You guys didn’t actually think that I wouldn’t remember what you did to Yumi and I last night, did you?”

Sesshomaru shrugged. “I wouldn’t have been surprised.”

InuYasha glared at his brother. He then turned to Kagome. “So was this your bright idea? Or did you just orchestrate it?” he asked.

Sesshomaru stepped in front of his mate. “Actually, this Sesshomaru claims fault for last night. Kagome merely assisted by providing the monk.”

“You?!”

“Hai.”

“Why the hell did you do that? It’s not like you at all!”

“I do not need to explain my actions.”

InuYasha rolled his eyes. He then turned to Miroku. “You, on the other hand, I’m going to kill you!” he shouted as he leapt out at his friend.

Kagome gasped. “SIT BOY!”

The beads on InuYasha rosary glowed pink and with a loud thud, he was prone on the ground. A muffled stream of obscenities that would cause a sailor to cringe then began to fill the air.

“Oh, InuYasha, leave them alone!” Yumi shouted from inside the dojo. She then emerged, fully dressed, with his fire rat haori and under kimono in hand. She smiled to Kagome. “He should be thanking you guys. But, as we all know, he’s stupid.”

“Hey!” InuYasha shouted as he finally managed to remove his head from the flooring. “You didn’t seem to mind my stupidity last night?”

Yumi rolled her eyes. “Intelligence is not necessarily needed for those kinds of feats. I just pray that any pups we have together will not be blessed with your startling intellect.”

Kagome and Jin snickered again. Sesshomaru let out an exasperated sigh and massaged his temples. ‘How is it that he is of my father’s blood?’

Yumi then tossed the hanyou his clothes. “Here, it isn’t courteous to make your mate clean up after you,” she said as he caught them effortlessly. She then turned to Sesshomaru. “So this was your doing?”

He nodded.

Yumi smirked. “I don’t know weather to hug you and say ‘thanks’ or slap you and say ‘now look what you’ve done’.”

Kagome, Jin and Miroku were now all trying to stifle their laughter as InuYasha glared at Yumi. “What in tell ell is that supposed to mean?”

Yumi slapped her hand to her forehead. “Oh kami, I have to work on your grammar. It means, baka, that although I love you dearly, you are, by all means, a hot head and a trouble maker far more than anything else.”

“I ain’t a baka! And it isn’t really my fault that trouble seems to find me.”

“Ain’t, is not a word, and no, trouble doesn’t follow you, you make it by saying stupid things and pissing people off nine times out of ten.”

Jin, Kagome and Miroku were having a really hard time not laughing.

“They usually start it!”

“Not necessarily!”

“Gah! Woman, you are so getting close to pissing me off!”

“It isn’t that hard of a feat to accomplish! Almost any and every youkai out there has probably done so! You’re very easy to piss off, hot head!”

“I am not!”

“You are too! Look, you’re already pissed off!”

InuYasha glared at Sesshomaru. “This is all your fault!”

“This Sesshomaru did not force you to kiss her in the garden. Which, by the way, is what started that damn sighing. Which enraged everyone around here, and eventually caused you two, to get locked in that room last night,” Sesshomaru stated.

InuYasha slumped his shoulders in defeat. “Whatever, it’s too early.”

“May I remind you, that again, you did start this?” Yumi asked.

InuYasha glared at Yumi. “Not now.”

“It’s as though they’ve always been mates,” Kagome commented.

“Just goes to show you, those two were meant for each other,” Jin added.

****

A week had passed since InuYasha and Yumi’s mating. Sesshomaru and the other Lords had devised a plan of attack against Naraku with the help of InuYasha and Kagome. Yumi sat once again under her favorite tree in the gardens. mos most of her kind, she could sense the auras of all living things, and now she could feel the aura of her unborn child that grew within. Soon, InuYasha would be able to sense it as well through her scent. Yumi smiled to her self as se reminisced their conversation only yesterday.

[Flashback]

InuYasha was perched in a tree as Yumi played with Shippo and Rin, whom Sesshomaru had fetched from his palace in the Western Lands by request of Kagome only a few nights before. He watched as she gave both children equal attention in their game. He leapt down from his perch in hopes of talking to Yumi, only to be tackled by both of the small children.

“Uncle Inu-sama!” Rin squealed as she wrapped her arms about his knees.

“Hey, InuYasha!” Shippo chirped as he leapt to his shoulder.

“Hey runts.”

“Is Inu-sama going to play tag with Shippo and Rin today?” Rin asked, her brown eyes filled with hope.

“In a bit, right now I have to talk to Yumi. Why don’t you two go see if Miroku will play with you?”

Rin and Shippo gave huge grins and scampered off to go find Miroku and use him as a punching bag. Much to InuYasha’s mirth.

“Now, why oh why, would you plague poor Miroku thusly, Inu-chan?” Yumi inquired.

“Because the bouzo deserves it.”

Yumi giggled. “I suppose he does. Now, what did you wish to discuss?”

“Would you accept a hanyou?” he asked, suddenly serious.

“That’s a stupid question. I accept everything about you, and you’re a hanyou, why would I not accept our child?”

InuYasha was stunned. “Y-you would?”

“Why wouldn’t I? Anything born of our union, including a spiny rat, would be loved by my whole heart.”

“A spiny rat?”

“It’s a figure of speech, love, not to be taken literally.”

“I know that! So, you wouldn’t care that it would have human blood?”

“Of course I don’t! As long as you don’t care that it would be part elf, I wouldn’t care,” she said as she wrapped her arms about his waist and rested her head on his shoulder.

“I’d love anything that came from you. I love you more than anything in the world, Yumi,” he whispered into her ear and held her close.

Yumi sighed, if she had died at that very moment, she would have been happy. As long as it was in his arms.

[End Flashback]

Yumi caressed her stomach and smiled. ‘You are going to have an interesting life, little one. Interesting, but filled with the love of both I and your father.’ She thought to her unborn child.

Kikyo scowled as she watched the elf princess. ‘She carries his child. That child should be mine, it should be mine! He is mine! I should kill her and the abomination she bears!’

Kagura watched Kikyo silently. She could see the undead miko’s finger twitch, she craved the chance to kill the elven woman, but Naraku wanted her alive. And as much as she wanted to, she could not disobey him. Kagura also knew his secret orders that he had given her specifically. The orders to kill the undead priestess should InuYasha or Yumi fail to do so. Either way, Kikyo was not to return.

“It is time, Kikyo,” Kagura said. “She is defenseless, her sword is not near her.” Kagura knew better though. Although few knew their true origins, elves are known to be the result of the mating of great elemental spirits and youkai. And Yumi was legendary among them as a great wind elemental and swordsman. Unlike Kagura, whom needed her fan to cast her spells, Yumi needed only thought. Kagura hoped that Kikyo would tire the elven princess enough to allow her a chance to kidnap her and bring her to Naraku.

Kikyo strung her bow and moved into Yumi’s presence. “Good day, my lady,” she said with mock reverence.

Yumi narrowed her eyes at Kikyo but remained sitting. “Kikyo… what is it that you want?”

“Naraku wishes an audience with you this day.”

“I do not consort myself with vermin. Although, I will excuse myself from this little conversation as it is the vermin that initiated it.”

Kikyo readied her bow and pointed it at Yumi. “It was not a request, elf whore!”

Yumi raised an eyebrow. “Such anger towards me. Why is that, Kikyo? Is it because you no longer can lay claim to InuYasha? That he now cannot follow you to hell? That he now belongs to me and not you?”

“His heart was never yours to possess. He has always belonged to me!” Kikyo shouted as she pulled the string taut.

“You only wished to use him for your own personal gain, him and the Shikon. No wonder it was such a simple task for Naraku to deceive and destroy you. No wonder that he has repeated such. You are blind to anything that does not go in your favor. I pity your pathetic soul,” Yumi said eloquently as she stood.

“What do you mean, again? You are unarmed and helpless to attack.”

“Not so, Kikyo. A miko, even one as dense as your self, should know the truth of an elf’s power. Mine in particular.”

“What power could you possess that I should fear?”

“Unlike the detachment of Naraku’s, which awaits behind you, I need no tool to control the very winds,” Yumi said as the wind began to pick up and swirl about Kikyo, trapping her within a cyclone.

“Is this the best you can do?” Kikyo asked smugly.

Yumi narrowed her eyes at the undead priestess. “Nay, Kikyo, this is the only beginning.”

****

Levii: Ooh.. a cliffhanger! what shall happen!

Sess: You know damn well what will happen!

Inu: Yeah! why isn't Kagome under attacre! re!

Sess: What was that?

Levii: Oh dear...

Miroku: You did it again!

Levii: Sheesh! you have no sense of humor... don't worry, you and Sango are going to do the horizantal lombada soon.

Miroku: Good! 'cause someone gave you a package of cookies for one of our lemons

Levii: It'll be right along!

Inu: OKay, people, you know the drill. cookies are the best bribes to get her to update, and the more cookies, the better the lemons and more frequent.

Levii: Inu... you know a big word!

Inu: Oh shut up!

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