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Chapter 27
The castle was all a bustle in the excitement of the ceremony that was quickly becoming only minutes away.
Sango was surprised by how obedient everyone in the castle was. The orders of what was supposed to happen must have been laid in the prior week and pursued by the unknown mother, Arisu.
Sango especially thought it sweet of Sesshoumaru’s servants to have brought her and Miroku formal wedding party dressing. She was more surprised that Sesshoumaru had accepted her as a part of Inuyasha’s wedding party considering he had no family to be by his side other then Sesshoumaru and, well, he was marrying him.
There was also a present sent directly for her.
The tag on it read, ‘For Sango, since we will not be able to attend you’re and Miroku’s wedding, I hope you appreciate this. Open it before you leave. Thank you for all of your help through the times, Inuyasha.’
The package was beautifully wrapped and Sango was excited to see what was inside. To think that Inuyasha had taken the time to find her something was beyond the comprehension of what Sango knew about Inuyasha. Being with Sesshoumaru must have been a good thing for Inuyasha and the same went for Sesshoumaru.
The garments the servants brought for her and Miroku were a beautiful shade of royal red, and had golden cranes stitched all over. They were absolutely beautiful.
It was an honor for anyone to be a part of a lords wedding party, but then you throw in the fact that it was the western demon lord’s, although it goes against everything Sango was taught, she was still flattered.
A servant came in quietly and spoke to Sango “Ma’am the Lord wanted me to come in here and help you with your dressing and your hair. Master Inuyasha just wanted me to check to see if you have approved the garments that have been chosen for you and the monk.”
Sango could not believe that a demon was going to be dressing her, but if that is what they would like, to make sure she looked perfect, then she would follow Sesshoumaru’s and Inuyasha’s request.
“That would be fine, Miss, I was wondering where all these layers should go? I have never seen such beautiful dressing before.”
The servant simply bowed and began to help remove Sango’s clothing.
Miroku saw the garment that the demon brothers had intended for him to wear, it was made of beautiful red silk and was the most elegant thing he would probably ever wear.
He hoped that Sesshoumaru would allow him to keep the robes for when Sango and he would be married for they did not have the money to purchase something more elegant than this.
Once he finally finished dressing he went to where he knew Sango’s dressing room was located.
Jaken had given them a joined room for if they chose to sleep separately then it would also be available for them.
It was only a few feet down the hall but even in that short walk Miroku must have pasted at least 30 servants carrying flowers and silk ribbon and preceded to where he believes was the hall.
He had hoped that Sango had finished getting dressed for he could not stand to be alone with this many demons without any of his sutras nor his staff.
Sesshoumaru would not allow those items in his home because it would disrupt the balance, for he and Inuyasha were the only protectors of his home. If Inuyasha of Sesshoumaru could not protect the home from anyone than that could be grounds for an uprising in his land with someone trying to overthrow his lordship.
Once Miroku finally reached Sango’s door, he knocked lightly hoping that she would answer quickly, he was wrong. He knocked louder and louder without any response, the only way he figured to capture her attention was to call out loud for her, but before he could even speak she opened the door and appeared in all of her beauty.
“My dear I have never seen you look more gorgeous then you do right now, I just can not believe that you made yourself up in this short amount of time.” Miroku kissed Sango on the lips for a chaste kiss.
Her face was done up in an almost-geisha-style of makeup and he would not want to be held responsible for being the one to mess it up.
“Why, thank you Miroku you look extremely handsome as well, although I wonder why they had put us in matching robes, maybe to signify that we are together?”
Sango was about to start walking when she remembered she had no idea on where to go.
As the chamber maid that dressed her was about to walk out, Sango felt it would probably be safe to ask her for she would guarantee to know where the location of the ceremony was.
“Miss, could you please direct my betrothed and I to the location of the ceremony, we would not want to be late if you would not mind?”
The chamber maid simply bowed and headed off in the direction of the location of the ceremony.
Everything was ready the hall, but the chamber maid kept walking past where an upwards of 150 of the most powerful demons from all over the world were gathered. It was filled with the sounds of arguing from nobles and lords who had not gotten along for centuries but had gathered in the respect of Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha and their father’s legacy.
Although none of the demons had any idea to whom Sesshoumaru was even marrying. The only thing they new about was that this would be the first lord marriage in 300 years.
The chamber maid lead Sango and Miroku outside and continued into the woods surrounding the castle until they came upon a set of sloping stairs that lead them down to a small stream. There was a marble carved bridge leading over it taking them onto a small island filled with cherry blossoms, which ran rampant through Sesshoumaru’s land, and other roses and tulips.
Miroku noticed that there were two side bridges that did not look like they had been there for very long, maybe built there for this event, and a priest was standing underneath a small pergola.
Rin was standing to the right of the priest in a brightly colored orange kimono with her hair done up with all of her favorite flowers, it was quite obvious to everyone that she was having a hard time standing still.
Beside Rin was a demon that neither Sango nor Miroku had ever seen before, but had the same distinctive marking as Sesshoumaru, so they could only assume that she was associated with the elder brother.
Shippo was already standing to the left of the priest wearing a blue mixed with turquoise kimono, his hair style in a more traditional way other then the care free way he normally wore it.
Sango and Miroku figured if any one would know anything about what was going on it might be Shippo for they did not know the ancient demon that stood beside the little girl that they had helped in the past.
“Shippo why are we outside? I would have thought Sesshoumaru would have wanted all the other demon nobles to be here to witness this union, but we are the only ones out here.” Miroku did not want to be the one that was holding everything up so he figured once he asked Shippo on what was going on then he could conclude from there what was actually going on.
“Well, Sesshoumaru wanted it to be in front of everyone to show his claim in front of the other demons that he is taking his half blood brother as his mate, but Inuyasha did not want to be a spectacle in front of everyone. So Sesshoumaru figured they would do the vows to in private and then they would have the announcement in front of everyone where the other demons will have a chance to challenge it. From there, Inuyasha will more than likely defend his title as the equal demon lord of the west. Though I could be wrong, I wanted to draw it out but Inuyasha would not allow me to play with the oils for fear that I would get them on my hatori.”
Sango stood there in awe of everything Shippo had just said for it was an extreme mouthful for the little fox.
“Well what are we going to do? I do not understand what you, Miroku, Rin, whoever that other demon and I are still waiting for.”
Sango was getting anxious she had never seen a demon unionship and she was curious to see what would happen. Then again, she was also curious for concerns for her own wedding, although Miroku and she had not set a date yet.
“Alright, I will try to see if I understood everything that Jaken told me would be happening: we are the witnesses for Inuyasha since he does not have a mother or father. We will be representing him and he’s ready to receive Sesshoumaru. The elder demon is actually Sesshoumaru’s mother, she came back from hell to witness this, she is not very nice so avoid her as much as possible, Rin and Jaken will also be Sesshoumaru’s witnesses since, well, their father passed well before Jaken had known. So what we will do is just stand here and just be witnesses to the whole ceremony and if anyone protests it when we go to the hall we might have to defend their honor. Why did they have to tell me everything I did not need to learn all of this?”
With a loud clamor Jaken came running down the stairs and ran to speak with the priest. After a few moments of discussion, Jaken went to go stand by Arisu’s side to wait for the ceremony to take place.
The priest spoke to the small group “In a few moments the ceremony will begin, first Sesshoumaru will come and then Inuyasha will join him to my left. If you have any questions I will hope that you will ask them now.”
Miroku, Sango, Shippo, Arisu, Rin, and Jaken all nodded at once in understanding of what the priest had said. Since none of them spoke, they waited for Sesshoumaru to arrive.
Miroku’s guess was correct as Sesshoumaru could be seen crossing over the bridge to the right.
His Montsuki kimono was of the traditional way, but had yellow highlights in his pants signifying his mother’s family colors. His hair was pulled back in a loose braid tied back with a black piece of leather. As he approached, he paused in front of the little girl and leaned down to her for a few moments then straightened himself out and continued on his way to stand in front of the priest.
The priest looked at Sesshoumaru and Sesshoumaru just simply nodded signifying that he was ready to proceed.
A moment later, Inuyasha walked down the left handed bridge he too was dressed in a traditional Montsuki Kimono, the same as Sesshoumaru, the only difference was his pants were highlighted with red to relate to their father’s family color, Inuyasha did not know his mother’s colors or else he would have warn them.
Inuyasha made quick work of closing the gap between him and his mate, for they had only spent three hours away and it felt like forever. Once he was finally beside Sesshoumaru, once again, he looked at the priest and did a simple nod signify that was ready to proceed.
“If the witnesses for Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha would face each other as they recite their vows.”
Inuyasha clasped Sesshoumaru’s hand and began to speak “You are Blood of my Blood, Bone of my Bone. I give you my body, that we Two might be One. I give you my spirit, until our Life shall be Done. I give you my Soul, for you to Protect. You are my Brother, my Lover, my Family, I am forever yours.”
Sesshoumaru wrapped his hand around Inuyasha’s for I was his turn to speak the words “You are Blood of my Blood, Bone of my Bone. I give you my body, that we Two might be One. I give you my spirit, until our Life shall be Done. I give you my Soul, for you to Protect. You are my Brother, my Lover, my Family, my Equal, I am forever yours.”
Inuyasha felt like he was on fire did he really just hear his brother call him an equal? Sid Sesshoumaru finally see him, even being half blooded, as an equal?
The priest had something in his hand and Inuyasha was not too sure what it was. Once he handed the object to Inuyasha he quickly figured it out.
“Inuyasha you will bind your hand with Sesshoumaru’s.”
Inuyasha grabbed the purple silk and tied it around Sesshoumaru’s only hand and around his own left hand. “You are forever each other's mate, your souls will be bound just like the silk. When you feel you souls loosen, tighten your bound and you will keep each other happy, for you are mates bound together forever.”
Once the priest finished, Inuyasha closed the gap between him and Sesshoumaru. He wrapped his left arm around Sesshoumaru’s and pulled him down into the first official kiss as the new lords of the western lands. Sesshoumaru slipped his tongue in, not caring about the onlookers to the passionate kiss. Sesshoumaru, even with the bound wrist, pulled his arm around Inuyasha’s waist causing his arm to go behind him.
The kiss was quickly intensifying until she spoke. “I knew you were gay, but must hump in front of your mother, if I never see you two kiss again it will be to soon.”
Alright I was surprised that I pumped out this chapter this quickly but I could not help myself I would like to thank my betas once again for rocking and getting it out this quickly...if you would like to see what everything looks like you can check out the pictures I have on Fanlib.com under the same author name I have all kinds of pictures there. I hope you enjoyed the chapter I based the ceremony on a Celtic wedding I could not find really anything fitting for the brothers marriage so please don’t yell about it. I will have more traditional ceremony towards the Japanese sense in the next chapter in front of the other demons. Well I hope you all enjoy and just a heads up I am coming close to the end of part one. I will be starting the second part very shortly so please read and review til next time
Bek
The castle was all a bustle in the excitement of the ceremony that was quickly becoming only minutes away.
Sango was surprised by how obedient everyone in the castle was. The orders of what was supposed to happen must have been laid in the prior week and pursued by the unknown mother, Arisu.
Sango especially thought it sweet of Sesshoumaru’s servants to have brought her and Miroku formal wedding party dressing. She was more surprised that Sesshoumaru had accepted her as a part of Inuyasha’s wedding party considering he had no family to be by his side other then Sesshoumaru and, well, he was marrying him.
There was also a present sent directly for her.
The tag on it read, ‘For Sango, since we will not be able to attend you’re and Miroku’s wedding, I hope you appreciate this. Open it before you leave. Thank you for all of your help through the times, Inuyasha.’
The package was beautifully wrapped and Sango was excited to see what was inside. To think that Inuyasha had taken the time to find her something was beyond the comprehension of what Sango knew about Inuyasha. Being with Sesshoumaru must have been a good thing for Inuyasha and the same went for Sesshoumaru.
The garments the servants brought for her and Miroku were a beautiful shade of royal red, and had golden cranes stitched all over. They were absolutely beautiful.
It was an honor for anyone to be a part of a lords wedding party, but then you throw in the fact that it was the western demon lord’s, although it goes against everything Sango was taught, she was still flattered.
A servant came in quietly and spoke to Sango “Ma’am the Lord wanted me to come in here and help you with your dressing and your hair. Master Inuyasha just wanted me to check to see if you have approved the garments that have been chosen for you and the monk.”
Sango could not believe that a demon was going to be dressing her, but if that is what they would like, to make sure she looked perfect, then she would follow Sesshoumaru’s and Inuyasha’s request.
“That would be fine, Miss, I was wondering where all these layers should go? I have never seen such beautiful dressing before.”
The servant simply bowed and began to help remove Sango’s clothing.
Miroku saw the garment that the demon brothers had intended for him to wear, it was made of beautiful red silk and was the most elegant thing he would probably ever wear.
He hoped that Sesshoumaru would allow him to keep the robes for when Sango and he would be married for they did not have the money to purchase something more elegant than this.
Once he finally finished dressing he went to where he knew Sango’s dressing room was located.
Jaken had given them a joined room for if they chose to sleep separately then it would also be available for them.
It was only a few feet down the hall but even in that short walk Miroku must have pasted at least 30 servants carrying flowers and silk ribbon and preceded to where he believes was the hall.
He had hoped that Sango had finished getting dressed for he could not stand to be alone with this many demons without any of his sutras nor his staff.
Sesshoumaru would not allow those items in his home because it would disrupt the balance, for he and Inuyasha were the only protectors of his home. If Inuyasha of Sesshoumaru could not protect the home from anyone than that could be grounds for an uprising in his land with someone trying to overthrow his lordship.
Once Miroku finally reached Sango’s door, he knocked lightly hoping that she would answer quickly, he was wrong. He knocked louder and louder without any response, the only way he figured to capture her attention was to call out loud for her, but before he could even speak she opened the door and appeared in all of her beauty.
“My dear I have never seen you look more gorgeous then you do right now, I just can not believe that you made yourself up in this short amount of time.” Miroku kissed Sango on the lips for a chaste kiss.
Her face was done up in an almost-geisha-style of makeup and he would not want to be held responsible for being the one to mess it up.
“Why, thank you Miroku you look extremely handsome as well, although I wonder why they had put us in matching robes, maybe to signify that we are together?”
Sango was about to start walking when she remembered she had no idea on where to go.
As the chamber maid that dressed her was about to walk out, Sango felt it would probably be safe to ask her for she would guarantee to know where the location of the ceremony was.
“Miss, could you please direct my betrothed and I to the location of the ceremony, we would not want to be late if you would not mind?”
The chamber maid simply bowed and headed off in the direction of the location of the ceremony.
Everything was ready the hall, but the chamber maid kept walking past where an upwards of 150 of the most powerful demons from all over the world were gathered. It was filled with the sounds of arguing from nobles and lords who had not gotten along for centuries but had gathered in the respect of Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha and their father’s legacy.
Although none of the demons had any idea to whom Sesshoumaru was even marrying. The only thing they new about was that this would be the first lord marriage in 300 years.
The chamber maid lead Sango and Miroku outside and continued into the woods surrounding the castle until they came upon a set of sloping stairs that lead them down to a small stream. There was a marble carved bridge leading over it taking them onto a small island filled with cherry blossoms, which ran rampant through Sesshoumaru’s land, and other roses and tulips.
Miroku noticed that there were two side bridges that did not look like they had been there for very long, maybe built there for this event, and a priest was standing underneath a small pergola.
Rin was standing to the right of the priest in a brightly colored orange kimono with her hair done up with all of her favorite flowers, it was quite obvious to everyone that she was having a hard time standing still.
Beside Rin was a demon that neither Sango nor Miroku had ever seen before, but had the same distinctive marking as Sesshoumaru, so they could only assume that she was associated with the elder brother.
Shippo was already standing to the left of the priest wearing a blue mixed with turquoise kimono, his hair style in a more traditional way other then the care free way he normally wore it.
Sango and Miroku figured if any one would know anything about what was going on it might be Shippo for they did not know the ancient demon that stood beside the little girl that they had helped in the past.
“Shippo why are we outside? I would have thought Sesshoumaru would have wanted all the other demon nobles to be here to witness this union, but we are the only ones out here.” Miroku did not want to be the one that was holding everything up so he figured once he asked Shippo on what was going on then he could conclude from there what was actually going on.
“Well, Sesshoumaru wanted it to be in front of everyone to show his claim in front of the other demons that he is taking his half blood brother as his mate, but Inuyasha did not want to be a spectacle in front of everyone. So Sesshoumaru figured they would do the vows to in private and then they would have the announcement in front of everyone where the other demons will have a chance to challenge it. From there, Inuyasha will more than likely defend his title as the equal demon lord of the west. Though I could be wrong, I wanted to draw it out but Inuyasha would not allow me to play with the oils for fear that I would get them on my hatori.”
Sango stood there in awe of everything Shippo had just said for it was an extreme mouthful for the little fox.
“Well what are we going to do? I do not understand what you, Miroku, Rin, whoever that other demon and I are still waiting for.”
Sango was getting anxious she had never seen a demon unionship and she was curious to see what would happen. Then again, she was also curious for concerns for her own wedding, although Miroku and she had not set a date yet.
“Alright, I will try to see if I understood everything that Jaken told me would be happening: we are the witnesses for Inuyasha since he does not have a mother or father. We will be representing him and he’s ready to receive Sesshoumaru. The elder demon is actually Sesshoumaru’s mother, she came back from hell to witness this, she is not very nice so avoid her as much as possible, Rin and Jaken will also be Sesshoumaru’s witnesses since, well, their father passed well before Jaken had known. So what we will do is just stand here and just be witnesses to the whole ceremony and if anyone protests it when we go to the hall we might have to defend their honor. Why did they have to tell me everything I did not need to learn all of this?”
With a loud clamor Jaken came running down the stairs and ran to speak with the priest. After a few moments of discussion, Jaken went to go stand by Arisu’s side to wait for the ceremony to take place.
The priest spoke to the small group “In a few moments the ceremony will begin, first Sesshoumaru will come and then Inuyasha will join him to my left. If you have any questions I will hope that you will ask them now.”
Miroku, Sango, Shippo, Arisu, Rin, and Jaken all nodded at once in understanding of what the priest had said. Since none of them spoke, they waited for Sesshoumaru to arrive.
Miroku’s guess was correct as Sesshoumaru could be seen crossing over the bridge to the right.
His Montsuki kimono was of the traditional way, but had yellow highlights in his pants signifying his mother’s family colors. His hair was pulled back in a loose braid tied back with a black piece of leather. As he approached, he paused in front of the little girl and leaned down to her for a few moments then straightened himself out and continued on his way to stand in front of the priest.
The priest looked at Sesshoumaru and Sesshoumaru just simply nodded signifying that he was ready to proceed.
A moment later, Inuyasha walked down the left handed bridge he too was dressed in a traditional Montsuki Kimono, the same as Sesshoumaru, the only difference was his pants were highlighted with red to relate to their father’s family color, Inuyasha did not know his mother’s colors or else he would have warn them.
Inuyasha made quick work of closing the gap between him and his mate, for they had only spent three hours away and it felt like forever. Once he was finally beside Sesshoumaru, once again, he looked at the priest and did a simple nod signify that was ready to proceed.
“If the witnesses for Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha would face each other as they recite their vows.”
Inuyasha clasped Sesshoumaru’s hand and began to speak “You are Blood of my Blood, Bone of my Bone. I give you my body, that we Two might be One. I give you my spirit, until our Life shall be Done. I give you my Soul, for you to Protect. You are my Brother, my Lover, my Family, I am forever yours.”
Sesshoumaru wrapped his hand around Inuyasha’s for I was his turn to speak the words “You are Blood of my Blood, Bone of my Bone. I give you my body, that we Two might be One. I give you my spirit, until our Life shall be Done. I give you my Soul, for you to Protect. You are my Brother, my Lover, my Family, my Equal, I am forever yours.”
Inuyasha felt like he was on fire did he really just hear his brother call him an equal? Sid Sesshoumaru finally see him, even being half blooded, as an equal?
The priest had something in his hand and Inuyasha was not too sure what it was. Once he handed the object to Inuyasha he quickly figured it out.
“Inuyasha you will bind your hand with Sesshoumaru’s.”
Inuyasha grabbed the purple silk and tied it around Sesshoumaru’s only hand and around his own left hand. “You are forever each other's mate, your souls will be bound just like the silk. When you feel you souls loosen, tighten your bound and you will keep each other happy, for you are mates bound together forever.”
Once the priest finished, Inuyasha closed the gap between him and Sesshoumaru. He wrapped his left arm around Sesshoumaru’s and pulled him down into the first official kiss as the new lords of the western lands. Sesshoumaru slipped his tongue in, not caring about the onlookers to the passionate kiss. Sesshoumaru, even with the bound wrist, pulled his arm around Inuyasha’s waist causing his arm to go behind him.
The kiss was quickly intensifying until she spoke. “I knew you were gay, but must hump in front of your mother, if I never see you two kiss again it will be to soon.”
Alright I was surprised that I pumped out this chapter this quickly but I could not help myself I would like to thank my betas once again for rocking and getting it out this quickly...if you would like to see what everything looks like you can check out the pictures I have on Fanlib.com under the same author name I have all kinds of pictures there. I hope you enjoyed the chapter I based the ceremony on a Celtic wedding I could not find really anything fitting for the brothers marriage so please don’t yell about it. I will have more traditional ceremony towards the Japanese sense in the next chapter in front of the other demons. Well I hope you all enjoy and just a heads up I am coming close to the end of part one. I will be starting the second part very shortly so please read and review til next time
Bek
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