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Kagome giggled and flung her arms around the white haired woman’s middle, “Group hug!”
Kaori paled as Aderyn and Shizuka joined in on the fun. “IYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! GET! OF! MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!”
Aderyn pulled out of the hug and looked around then. “I found it!” she cheered.
All four of the remaining girls froze and blinked in startled confusion. “Found what?” The silver kitsune questioned her friend, and her sanity.
“This is the palace that Inuyasha was born. There is a trinket that I need to retrieve from here.” Aderyn’s demeanor grew somber.
Azuka blinked and then looked around, her lips falling open as she realized the pond they had fell into earlier had actually been a koi pond. Whipping around she saw the decaying remains of the House, it was in the process of merging with the surrounding foliage, and could be missed if the eye were untrained, “Oh... sweet Kami...” Azuka whispered, moving away from the other girls and towards the skeleton of the decaying House. In her mind eyes the House was rebuilt, polished and full of servants that greeted her with friendly human faces.
“I gave Izayoi-chan a necklace one of the times I visited, right before she died. It had a golden feather, about the length of my pointer finger on it.” She held out her hand, pointer finger extended.
“Eeeeeh! You came here after Touga-sama died?” Kaori wailed, pointing at her.
Aderyn glared at her. “Why are you trying to get me killed, Kao-chan?”
Azuka loomed over the petite raven. “What is she talking about?”
Kaori backed away slowly, her eyes closed and her lips a grim, straight line, “...Crap.”
The silver kitsune loomed over the two, actual youki sparking behind her pupils, “Don’t tell me she’s actually right, Aderyn. You did not come here, after Touga-sama died!”
“I might’ve. A time or two.” The raven looked bashful.
Azuka exploded, tipped her head back and roared, clawing at her hair, “You directly disobeyed his orders?! WHY!? We were told not to come back here! What if you had been seen!? What if Takimaru’s family-!?”
“Do you really think Touga-kun would’ve wanted to me to abandon the mother of his youngest child?” Aderyn snapped. “Besides, Izayoi-chan was my friend.”
Azuka snarled, rubbing her hands down her face, “You.... Sess-.... fuck!” The silver kitsune began to pace, the one tail that remained in her humanoid form twitched incessantly, “I know.... Izayoi was my friend too... of course she was! However, at the time we were given explicit orders, Aderyn... If Sesshomaru-sama were to find out... His wrath would be greater than my own. I can not bring myself to be so anger, because i know why you did it... but... YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME!” Azuka rounded on the golden raven, her ears laid back, “I WOULD HAVE GONE WITH YOU! Be damned the consequences! If the Setsuna Army had found you!” Azuka cut herself off sharply, jerking her face to the side, her hands clenching tightly at her hips., “You will not make such a decision again. Into hell, I would follow you, but you must tell me you’re going!”
“Gomenasai, but you know that Sesshoumaru would not be able to stop me. I was his father’s beta, and I’m fifty years older than he is.”
“He would have tried, back then... It would have torn in asunder, having to choose between you two...”
“That is why I could not tell him, nor you.”
