Not just what I seem to be by sweetest angel

First meeting with the devil (revised)

I started this story Two years ago and it had stayed in 'hiatus' for a long moment.

Here is a re-posted and more importantly re-edited version of the story.

I thank the lady fairy for her corrections and help.

Summary :

A human princess had to run away from her home to go in hiding in the most surprising place : the western lands, part of the country where mostly only youkais reside and who, you can say, aren’t that friendly with human kind…hope you will enjoy !!

Disclaimer : Yeah I know, you can’t believe your ears (or more precisely yours eyes)… I don’t own InuYasha !!!!!!!

……….*blink* What ?

Why are you looking at me this way ?

hufff I’m perfectly sane, thank you very much.

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Chapter 1 :

First meeting with the devil

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It was the night. The nocturnal animals were coming out of their sleeping places to begin their search for food for the night. Some insects, in the under bushes of the gardens and wounds surrounding the castle, were rubbing their legs or wings, to communicate between their pair, producing the characteristic music you could hear during warms summer nights, like a sweet lullaby. An owl cried out into the night, scanning the surrounding forest ground, in search of its next meal. All in all, it was a calm and beautiful night as any other.

All of a sudden, silence filled the air, the night becoming suspiciously still. It was too calm to be natural. It was as if the nature herself was holding her breath, waiting for what was about to happen.

The sky was clear, not a cloud to mask its beauty. The night had put on its shinier and fancier dress, as the stars were sparkling brightly and the moon was full, illuminating the sky.

The moon shone proudly, reflecting off on the creamy skin of the sleeping girl occupying one of the bedchambers of the silent castle.

The light provided by the peaceful night of the full moon was coming through the parted curtains, lighting up the sleeping beauty. She appeared angel like in her sleep.

Her ebony hair was spread out around her petite form, giving her an almost ethereal appearance. Her alabaster skin, like silk, was adding to her seemly unearthly beauty that no other human being to possess. Even her scent was exceptional, a fragrance of sakura blossoms put together with some others smells difficult to identify but giving her a really particular scent, never seen in a human.

She wasn't an angel, though her perfection could easily invoke the sin of envy by a mere glance, just a human.

Her lips were like petals of a newly blossomed rose. They are neither too thin nor too thick. Her cheeks carried a light pink colouring, even now without any make up on.

She wasn’t so different from the others girls could be, but she had about her certain little details which made her all the more special, so young and pure. She was after all the princess of this part of the Japan.

However, these qualities to her were no gift, more like a curse. Regularly, new candidates for her heart would approach her father. They would bring tons of gifts more expensive or original one than the others in the hope of swaying her interest but thankfully the answer of her great father was still no. Though she was still young, a mere 16, she was unmarried and without children, which was a rarity for a woman of her age in these times. She was grateful to her father for his pickiness about her future husband, and in a way, she is lucky to have for father, the Lord of the South, or King, like the humans prefer to call him.

The young princess, Kagome, was his most precious gift. His wife and younger son, Souta, were killed when Kagome was just a young child, leaving only the King and his precious daughter. The King would do anything and would stop at nothing for his precious daughter.

The minor lords of the land had tried to persuade the King to give the hand of his daughter away quickly, as he didn't have a wife any longer and he refused to replace her. However none blamed him for not wanting to replace his honourable wife, for she had been the most beautiful and kind woman of the land, in her time, none of the women in the court could compared to her beauty. It was from her, that Kagome took her beauty. From her father she took her eye color, strong character and bravery, along with an extreme stubborn streak. Her purity and innocence shone in anything and everything that was her.

Her beauty had attracted more than one suitor, however only the eyes of single man haunted her dreams, and not in a positive note. The man, with his beautiful dark hair, was handsome in his own right,... if it had not been for his crimson eyes, those that only shown malice and lust when they fell upon the young princess. This man really frightened the young heiress of the South, following her in nightmares.

This minor lord had obtained his titled and lands in an obscure and strange manner. It left him the only heir, without even any blood link with the previous lord. The rumours circulating about the inferior lord was that he had been an old adviser of this previous Lord, but no one really knew for sure the link that had gave him the ability to ascend the throne. This newly gained title provided him a right to ask for more…

By the persuasion of a young miko close to the royal family, the king allowed this inferior lord to stay at the palace for a time. It was at this moment that everything began. The young Lord had met the young princess and immediately wished to possess her.

Kagome, after meeting the minor lord, truly disliked the man and refused him immediately. She tried, to persuade her father to throw him from the castle, but the king refused to do so without a good reason, not wanting to go against the protocol.

Almost every day, Kagome succeeded to avoid the minor lord who continually came to ask her for her hand. He tried to woo her by any means but only succeeded in frightening her further. Every times his dark eyes fixed on the young woman, she felt some kind of dirty. Though the numbers of his visit to her, thanks to her successful avoidances, paled in comparison to her father, whom he also hounded for the young princesses hand. Arranged unions were current in this time and the young Lord tried to convince her father to give her hand away to him. But each time, the King said no.

After a time, the king felt uneasy and frustrated by the obsession of the young lord towards his only daughter. His unease caused him to send the Lord back to his own lands. The young lord was, you could say, quite unhappy about having to leave his obsession.

The day of the minor Lord dismissing, when Kagome had joined her father in the throne room, the young lord, in his furious exit, had passed close to her, whispering in a deep voice, “You will be mine, no one will be able to change that,” and then had disappeared behind the door. Kagome had felt a shiver run over her body, upon seeing the predator smile on the man's face. She trembled from sheer fear.

When the young lord had left the room, Kagome had run to her father, throwing herself into his unsuspecting arms, trembling like a leaf in fall. For once, no matter the thoughts of his guards or servants, the King had comforted his precious daughter.

“I am sorry to have put you in this situation my dear daughter. I should have done something from the start,” the king said softly to Kagome.

“I-it's okay, Father,” Kagome whispered back, squeezing her father more.

That happened weeks ago and they prayed that it would be last they would see of the young lord.

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End of the Chapter 1.

 take care,

Sweetest Angel