Wicked by Lady Nefertiti

Prompt 42: Nail

Wicked

Lady Nefertiti

Summary: Daiyoukai Sesshomaru has a personal agenda…Who would’ve thought? **Random Prompt Challenge**

Prompt 42: Nail: Words: 655

-Western lands- (some years later)

Kagome stared at herself in the mirror sitting on her vanity as one of her personal maids pulled on her hair into a difficult twist…. which was totally ridiculous for the occasion (why should she get ‘ready’ for this?) but still necessary since she was the lady of the west…the other personal maid was working on her nails as she applied nail-polish Kagome had brought back from the future. Another was working on her makeup, the other asking Kagome whether she would prefer the blue and purple kimono with the red obi or the white one with red sakura blossoms. Kagome’s mind was elsewhere at the moment. Satoshi had gotten older, didn’t call Sesshomaru ‘Inu-papa’ anymore--- and doing god-knew-what right now. Probably in the dojo. Hopefully nothing dangerous.

 It was going to be today. Today would be the start of the hearing in the palace that was supposed to serve as a courtroom for the time being. Inuyasha’s and Kikyo’s fate would be decided in the next few days. She didn’t know why Sesshomaru took that long a time---but sometimes even she, with the poker mask on his face, couldn’t tell. But Inuyasha and Kikyo weren’t being treated badly. They had been moved from the dungeons into a private, highly monitored secluded section with a barrier around it where no one was allowed to visit. It was like a tiny home of sorts. So they weren’t suffering from torture or anything like that.

A lady appeared from the doors bowed and said, “My lady, Satoshi-sama to see you.”

“Let him in.” Kagome said wincing at the way her hair was being pulled. Definitely going to get a different hair-dresser. She bowed and walked out. Kagome sighed as she thought about her son.

Satoshi…he knew about the court hearing and wanted to cause Inuyasha pain. Not for almost pup-napping him in the past but for causing Kagome pain and heartbreak for so many years before father came along. He wasn’t allowed near Inuyasha though. They still needed him alive. She smiled as she looked up and saw him through the mirror.

Satoshi, in black boots, wearing black hakama’s and a deep blue haori, hair sweaty (from practice probably) bowed and said, “Good morning mother.” Kagome could swear she saw her lady’s in waiting blushing, trying to hold their giggles in. ‘Now Really’ she thought. Yes she knew…more than one female would find her pup attractive. He did after all, have his father’s good looks.

“Ah Satoshi..I…oww!!!” Kagome said biting her lip. Damn that hairdresser!

“Will you be attending the hearing?” Kagome said as Satoshi gave the female demoness an evil look at hurting Kagome’s hair/head.

“Indeed.” Satoshi said in a Sesshomaru voice. Then said, “Mother I don’t think that you need to…” but fell silent at Kagome’s look.

“Now Satoshi where is Sesshomaru-sama?” Kagome asked.

“Probably giving Inuyasha-sama his usual death threats. It’s about to begin anyway.” He said.

“I see. Well we’re almost done here anyway.” Kagome said standing up and picking up the Kimono she thought would be best suited for her.

“Is something else the matter?” he said suddenly. Something was off in her voice. She shook her head and he nodded (letting it slide for now) bowed, his silver hair spilling forward as he did and walked out. He would need a bath before the hearing.

He heard Inuyasha’s curses and the Miko’s shrill voice. How that hanyou loved that Kikyo was beyond him...That Miko’s screams were like nails across a chalkboard.

But it was for the better he thought. There would be no ‘him’ had his mother and father not gotten together. His mother had told him the story which he found most amusing….well not the part where father tried to kill mother countless times. He shook his head and walked into his chambers closing it….all the while wondering what was wrong with his mother.

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