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Unexpected Endeavors	By : Scottishfae Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > Sessh?maru/Kagome > Sessh?maru/Kagome Views: 70550 -:- Recommendations : 4 -:- Currently Reading : 5
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Unexpected Endeavors
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a/n: with UE coming to an end soon, I decided to get some planning done on my next project...except I don’t know what I want to work on next. so, help me out! i have a poll up on my blog (right column below the “About Me” section), and a post (link to follow) explaining the choices. So, give it a look over and let me know what y’all think: http://ellafae.blogspot.com/2012/11/let-me-post-question-to-you.html

I dedicate this chapter to my kitten Thor who insisted that I play fetch with him during the whole duration of writing this chapter.

oh--have I mentioned that the next chapter is like 10k? Mwuhahahahaha. I need to run through it real quick to correct some honorifics, then I’ll post it up in a bit. Enjoy this until then!

Arc 5: Omiai
Chapter 28: Hashikake & Kagemi

Sesshomaru sat in the garden, the morning dew still fresh on the ground. Jaken was reading from a long list of something that the Taiyoukai couldn’t be bothered with at the moment.

He was unhappy with how things were proceeding. While he had several off-table alliances to help his own means, making official progress in stopping the omiai wasn’t forthcoming. His mother was as stubborn as ever.

At least Ichimaru had been more distant to the former Western Lady as of late.

“There’s another omiai counsel today,” Jaken informed him. “They’ll be in the general study--of course you have to attend.”

Sesshomaru nodded, looking at the toad youkai. “Jaken,” he began, his retainer coming straight to attention. “What do you think of Ichimaru’s daughter?”

Jaken, for his part, looked completely in surprise. He’d never been asked his opinion before. “I-I think she is a nice sort of girl--too easily led by others though.”

“Apt analysis,” Sesshomaru said.

“It seems Ichimaru-dono is very fond of her,” Jaken commented again.

“Not in particular. She is one of many daughters, not to mention sons, and I’ve never seen him really take special notice of her.”

Jaken deflated. “I’m sorry, Sesshomaru-dono, I-I was certain I saw a closeness between them. This Jaken is a fool and nothing--”

Sesshomaru silenced him; he thought back to the past few days and his brows furrowed. “Though you aren’t wrong in your observations. They do seem closer.”

The clever inuyoukai immediately began putting things into order. It seemed that along with Ichimaru’s distance, he was holding his offspring close to him. “This could definitely be useful,” Sesshomaru spoke to himself.

The Taiyoukai continued to calculate everything internally. “When is the meeting?”

“Just after midday. Sai-dono does not like to rise early.”

Sesshomaru nodded. “He likes to lay in bed with whatever bedmate he has found.”

“Yes, he brought several people with him for that purpose.”

Sesshomaru shook his head as he stood. The Eastern Tai was always ridiculous in his behavior. He remembered very keenly the gossip of an affair between the kappa and his own mother many years earlier.

“Where is Tamara-san now?”

Jaken looked puzzled at the question. He wracked his mind, “she had been attending to matters of the court with Amaya-sama, but I believe she has stopped that habit with Ichimaru-dono’s arrival.”

Sesshomaru looked down at the toad, starting to get annoyed. “And where is she now?”

“The northern gardens,” another voice added.

Jaken squawked and bowed to the Southern Taiyoukai. Sesshomaru gave a nod. “How are you today?” he asked.

“I am well, I suppose. I mean no offense to your lands, Sesshomaru, but I do miss my own. I had hoped all this business wouldn’t last this long.”

“I apologize for my part in delaying your trip home,” Sesshomaru replied sincerely.

Kai gave a wave of his hand; obviously not angry about his stay. “I believe you were looking for Tamara-san, she stays in the northern gardens in the mornings now. Ichimaru takes care of his affairs while he can watch over her. Because of this, it might not be as easy as you think to talk to her before the omiai counsel this afternoon.”

“Perhaps, but I admit I am getting a little desperate to end all this nonsense quickly myself. Like you wish to return to your lands, I wish to return to Kagome-chan.”

The Southern Tai smiled. “Would you like me to distract Ichimaru?”

Sesshomaru shook his head. “No, I do not wish to involve you directly quite yet.”

“Then I wish you luck with your endeavor this morn,” he said, turning to leave the garden.

Kai waved over his shoulder as he reached the stairs to the outside walkway. He gracefully climbed and began to head towards the main hall.

“Jaken, I will be unreachable for a bit--please ignore my mother if she demands to know where I am.”

The toad groaned, knowing ignoring the woman would only end in pain for him.

“Also, would you write to Inuyasha. I may require his assistance and it is about time my mother learned what a power a hanyou can have.”

()

From garden to garden, Sesshomaru didn’t bother to hide his presence as he approached the young wolf youkai.

Tamara stood in surprise when she turned to find him standing behind him. She gave a deep bow and a nervous smile. “S-Sesshomaru-dono, what do I owe this pleasure?”

“You enjoy the gardens here?”

“Yes,” she admitted. “I particularly like the one to the west--the small one that even the gardeners seem to have forgotten.”

Sesshomaru gave a nod. “It was part of a meadow that was built over as the palace grounds continued to expand; unfortunately that was all of it I could save of it.”

“It must be something special then, for you to save it.”

“I believe people of the courts forget of the land they rule over. They are too involved in themselves and do not see the big picture. We are here, as we are now, because of the lands and people that live on it.”

Tamara watched him carefully--a stern look came over his face as he spoke. She was afraid she had offended him and told him such. He dismissed the thought with a simple gesture.

“Would you like to walk with me for a bit? We can explore the gardens.”

The wolf youkai’s eyes lit up and she nodded. She stood and looked back at the building that currently housed her father.

“I can assure you he has heard everything,” Sesshomaru spoke.

Tamara gave a nervous smile. “I forget how powerful all the Tai are sometimes--I-I mean, obviously you are all in your positions because you are powerful but it’s just...”

She trailed off, her cheeks going pink, and her shoulders slumping. She always felt as if she sounded like an idiot.

Sesshomaru shook his head and approached her further. He offered out his arm, which she accepted by placing a clawed hand in the crook of his elbow. He began to guide her towards the western gardens--his own personal ones were guaranteed to be safe from nosey people.

“I wonder,” he said as a thought popped up in his head. “Have you ever officially been acquainted with Koga-san?”

“No,” she said with a shake of her head. “I know we are distant cousins, but we rarely have direct dealings with the princelings. I’ve never been in the same room as him until the other day.”

“That’s a shame; I believe you two would get along very well.”

()()

Sesshomaru half-listened as the girl chatted away. Some of what she said was idle court gossip, but every once in awhile she would begin discussing the botany of the gardens. It was then that she really came to life; when she really showed her true beauty.

It made him feel bad for what he was about to do.

“Tamara-san,” he began, setting his face to stone.

She turned to him, smiling brightly.

“You do not belong here.”

“Wh-what?”

“You are a naive little girl, well below the rank of a Taiyoukai. You do not belong here.”

Tamara let go of his arm and stepped back. Her smile had dropped. “I-I’m the daughter of a Taiyouaki, w-why would I be below you?”

“You are one of many daughters of a Taiyoukai, and not even an eldest at that.”

“Why should when I was born matter?”

“Because it does,” though Sesshomaru agreed with the sentiment.

“You must wonder why you were chosen by my mother? You do not think she chose you for your beauty, or rank, or intelligence?”

Tamara was on the edge of tears; she brought her hand up, covered by her kimono sleeve, and held them in front of her face.

“You are easily led, that is why you are here. You do not belong here.”

“I-I know what I helped Amaya-sama do was wrong; I didn’t mean to hurt anyone.”

Sesshomaru shook his head. “I have no time with conniving people--especially ones who are not smart enough to see themselves being used.”

Tamara crumpled to the ground. Sobs beginning to rake her body. Sesshomaru closed his eyes, a pained expression taking his face for moments. It was becoming harder for him to cut himself completely off from the people around him.

“Call all of this off.”

The wolf youkai’s head snapped up. “No,” she wailed. “No, I love you.”

Sesshomaru shook his head. “You do not. You do not even know me. Call this off, only you can do it right now.”

“No.”

The Taiyoukai squatted down in front of her. “Tamara-san, call it off,” he said fiercely. “I will not marry you, and if you do not call it off there will be a war. End this now.”

She pushed him back, wanting him away from her. “You would bring a war upon the lands just for a human?”

“I will not have the useless courts think they can have me do whatever they want. I am the ruler of these lands, and if I have to go to war to prove that fact, I will.”

Tamara shrunk back into herself. “You’re a monster.”

Sesshomaru barked out a laugh. “We all are.”

“No, just you. You and your family.”

He wanted to sigh; she was sounding defeated. This was good. “Then you will call all this mess off?”

Defiant eyes looked back at him. “Sesshomaru-dono, you are a heartless beast.”

An elegant brow rose at her statement; a cruel smile on his lips.

She stood up, trying to gather her strength despite the sobs that continued to escape. “You must have really never loved anyone; only someone so devoid of the emotion could be this indifferent to the passions.”

“Passion I do not need,” Sesshomaru stated. “This farce to end, I do.”

Tamara turned from him. She said nothing else, but headed back in the direction of the northern quarters. Hopefully, she was going to speak with her father.
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