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Unexpected Endeavors	By : Scottishfae Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > Sessh?maru/Kagome > Sessh?maru/Kagome Views: 70551 -:- Recommendations : 4 -:- Currently Reading : 5
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Unexpected Endeavors

scottishfae

a/n: with this chapter, we officially only have 10 more left! also--I should be able to have another couple of chapters up in the next couple of nights too. let’s see if i can get to chapter 30 by sunday.

Arc 5: Omiai

Chapter 27: Nakodo

Sesshomaru watched as the group entered the room. Kai sat up straighter. Koga shifted; he hid his unease well but the Western Tai could still feel his anxiousness with the others.

Amaya and Haru walked over and sat near the Sesshomaru. Ichimaru sat with his daughter at the other side of the table. While Sai and the court members who joined the discussions sat with Kai. An elderly wolf youkai sat across from them; Koga moved to sit next to her.

“As you all may know,” the older wolf spoke. “We are here to begin this omiai between the Western Taiyoukai, the honored Sesshomaru-dono, and the daughter of the Northern Taiyoukai, the honored Ichimaru-dono. I am Keita and will be serving as the nakodo for these discussions.”

The room, minus Sesshomaru, bowed their heads shallowly to her. Several servants came in carrying tea trays and began at once to serve each person in accordance to rank..

“Is there anything the families would like to say before we begin?” she asked above the soft clattering of porcelain.

“No,” Ichimaru spoke.

“No,” Amaya said as well.

“Yes,” Sesshomaru interjected.

All eyes turned to him and Amaya swiftly hit him with her fan. He ignored both it and her deadly stare.

“I will not agree to this omiai. I have no desire to marry for politics and have talked to Tamara-san about this previously.”

Tamara looked down at her lap, her shoulders hunching slightly. Ichimaru chewed at his lip, looking at his daughter then back at the Taiyoukai across from him.

“Your family has agreed,” Sai pointed out. “And you are not in a position to disagree.”

Sesshomaru looked over at the kappa and lifted an elegant brow. He allowed a sharp spike in his youki and the Eastern Tai broke eye contact. Kai and Ichimaru did not.

“Would you contest this?” said the man across from him.

He nodded his head.

“Do any of the other Tai support you?”

There was no move from either kappa. But Koga raised his hand. Sticking out his chest he proudly, and loudly, proclaimed he did.

“Who are you but a stupid wolf?” Said hissed.

Ichimaru barked at him in return. “Watch your mouth, you miserable ent.”

The room broke down into bickering, and it was all Sesshomaru could do not to laugh. Haru, however, was chuckling behind him.

Amaya’s fan came at the Taiyoukai again but he caught it and broke it. He stared at her contemptuously before standing and walking out. His absence seemed to be noted by only a few.

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“So you’re really going to try and get out of all this?”

Sesshomaru didn’t bother to turn towards Kai. The man was dressed in a courtly fashion--layers of kosode draped over him--it disguised his actual strength. “If I had wished to make a political alliance, I would not have made a deal with Kagome-chan.”

“And you think you’ll be successful?”

“I do.”

Kai sighed and walked over to where Sesshomaru was standing. The kappa was nowhere as tall or regal as the inuyoukai but he held himself as one of his position should. “I heard there was an accident before you returned. Is she okay?”

“It was an accident engineered by my mother. She is as much a spoiled pup as Haru.”

The other Taiyoukai laughed at that. “I get the impression Haru has his own demons to deal with.”

Sesshomaru nodded. He let a comfortable silence fall between them, the bickering inside could still be heard. “It amazes me how easily Sai can make everyone so mad,” Kai eventually commented.

“He has a temper.”

“That he does, but then again, so do I.”

The Western Tai lifted an elegant brow. “Oh?”

“I don’t like seeing people bullied, and especially those who don’t deserve it.”

Kai held out his closed hand towards Sesshomaru. In turn, he reached out his hand with his palm up and open. A ring was deposited in it. “I trust that you will find the right time to use this.”

Sesshomaru nodded. “Thank you,” he replied in earnest.

The kappa smiled. “You have changed so much,” he commented. “It’s what your mother fears most, but it’s also your greatest weapon. They cannot predict your actions, and they know no one Taiyoukai could stand against you. Which leaves one omninous question to be addressed.”

The inuyoukai grimaced.

“Will you start a war between the kingdoms?”

“If that is what it comes to,” Sesshomaru answered; his voice grim but determined.

“And you’re sure a human miko is worth all this?”

A little chuckle escaped Sesshomaru before he could stop himself. “You have no idea.”

“Good.”

A door opened and a servant stepped through. It was one of the kitchen maids and she looked frazzled. “Um, Sesshomaru-dono, Amaya-sama requests that you and Kai-dono return.”

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“I don’t like those two talking with each other,” Amaya fumed quietly to Sai.

They were standing near a door, in all pretense she was discussing his apology to Ichimaru. The kappa still fumed. “What for? Not like that coward could do anything; he’ll do whatever I say to do.”

Amaya hummed and turned as the other two Taiyoukai came in. “Perhaps, but that miserable son of mine is not going to make this easy, and I want to make sure all our pawns are in place.”

Sai nodded. He turned and approached Ichimaru. He gave a flourished bow--a mockery of a proper one--and apologized to the Northern Taiyoukai. He gave a toothy smile before returning to his seat.

Ichimaru watched as Amaya gave a proper bow to him and then sat back down. His eyes narrowed at the people around the table as he put a hand on his daughter’s shoulder. She looked up at him, confused, but he just smiled. “Remind me tomorrow to send for one of your playmates.; I hate to think you getting lonely here.”

Tamara gave a smile and brought her fan up to hide most of her face. “I am not a child any longer; I don’t need playmates,”

“I suppose you are--but I could send for your favorite maids. You always seemed to enjoy their company.”

“But I have maids provided for me here.”

“Yes, but having friends is very important no matter how old you are or where you are.”

“I suppose so,” she nodded slowly.

Keita cleared her throat and gathered attention from the group once again. As she spoke of the proceedings to come, everyone felt the tension in the air.
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