Sands of Destiny

Chapter Four

Morning soon came swiftly… a little too swiftly for Kagome and Atemu.  The sun had hit Kagome’s eyes making her groan and say groggily, “Just a little more mama…” making Atemu wake momentarily before going back to sleep with the both of them not even noticing how Kagome was spooned against Atemu with the pharaoh’s arms wrapped limply around her waist.  

Rose, being an early riser, just gave a wolfish snicker before stretching her limbs as Kagome snuggled into the warmth behind her.  

Unbeknownst to them, Isis- The mistress of the Millennium Eye took a peek into the Pharaoh’s sleeping chambers to see her Pharaoh sleeping with the girl she and the others were searching for last night.  Since Mahado and Seto were busy with Shada, she saw it her duty to check and see if their Pharaoh was awake.  But as she stared at the pair sleeping in each other’s arms, Isis couldn’t help but think that they act so much like newly married couple.  

At this time, Mana had come up to the older woman asking if the Pharaoh was awake yet only to get a glimpse of the said pair in the room.  The young sorceress-in-training couldn’t help but gap at the sight and feel glee at the same time.  Before any words could be exchange between the two females, Mahado came up to them asking, “What are the two of you doing, peeking into the Pharaoh’s chambers?”  

His voice had a teasing tone to it.  The high priest had just finished his business with Seto and Shada about the knowledge of their foreign female guest being in there Pharaoh’s chambers sleeping and had also told Shada to refrain from trying to arrest the young girl for merely acting on her will to be free and to survive.  

Isis and Mana both blushed at the undertone of Mahado’s teasing and answered at the same time, “Nothing.”  

“That’s a lie.”  Mahado said with a smirk.  

Isis asked innocently (sorta), “Why would we lie?”  

“Yeah, why?”  Mana said taking the older woman’s side.  

Mahado just raised a brow at them before moving pass them to enter the Pharaoh’s sleeping quarters.  Mana turned to Isis and asked in a whispered tone so her teacher wouldn’t hear, “Should we have warned him?”  Referring to the scene on the other side of the door.  

“Perhaps not.” 

While inside, Mahado could believe what he was seeing.  Yes, he had seen Atemu and his guest together last night but… 

“Dear Ra… what happened?”  Mahado silently asked himself as Rose started wagging her tail, begging for the priest’s attention.  By this time, Atemu just woke up groggily with a yawn before Rose decides to pounce on him and gives him a morning facial wash with her tongue, making Atemu confused at first by the onslaught but soon starts to laugh a bit with the knowledge of knowing who it was.  

Mahado couldn’t help but laugh at the sight.  He hadn’t seen his Pharaoh like this since sometime after his father, the former Pharaoh had died.  And it was quite an interesting sight to see the younger man “attacked” by a pup.  Atemu then fell off the bed with a yelp of surprise at seeing Mahado at the foot of his bed.  

After Atemu fell off the bed, Rose went after Kagome to wake her up while barking and licking her all over her face.  The miko groaned at being disturbed, “Ro~se, cut it out.”  But Rose doesn’t stop, only barking more making Kagome give up and start getting up with a whimper, “Okay, okay.  I’m up, I’m up.”  With Rose barking happily and hops off of her to sit at the foot of the bed.  

Kagome gave a small yawn and rubbed her eyes to rid of the sleep in them until the blurriness disappeared.  She then looked around and remembered where she was with only one thought in mind, ‘Oh, crap…’ when her sight were set in the priest she had seen with the Pharaoh last night.