Chapter 1:

Out in a wooded area in Feudal Era Japan, two demonesses are walking alone together. One of them being a full-fledged dog demoness, while the other one is a quarter-demoness. They both appear to be the same age, eighteen.

The dog demoness is fair-skinned, with pointy ears, pale blue eyes, slit pupils, and mid-thigh-length, silverish-white hair, which is pulled back into an off-center, right-sided bun tail, with short bangs. She has a black crescent moon, over a dark red flame, birthmark on her forehead, beneath her bangs. She has a blood-red stripe on each eyelid, a crooked scar, that runs vertically down her left eye, and a single blood-red stripe on each cheek. She also has a single blood-red stripe on each wrist, identical to the ones over her cheeks. She's wearing a red haori, that has an orange flame design on the right side of her collar and both sleeves. She also wears a red sashinuki hakama. She sports feminine-styled, black armor, over the rest of her garments, which forms similarly to a bodice from her chest to her waist, while the rest of it takes on more of a Japanese influence, with a spiked pauldron, that covers her right shoulder, that's attached to the upper section of her cuirass and flame faulds. Her footwear consists of black, ankle-high boots. Her armor is tied at the waist with a black sash, with the flame design, only colored the same shade of red as her haori and sashinuki hakama. On her left shoulder is a black mokomoko, that looks to be attached to her armor, and is long to almost her lower legs. Her clothing is colored in her Elemental trademark of her kingdom that resides in the West. Her height appears to be 5'8", her weight seems to be 128lbs, and her bust size looks to be a 36E. Her name is Ashuri and she comes from a Western Kingdom known as Arashi.

The quarter-demoness is almost the complete opposite of her. She's half-dog, half-wolf, and quarter-human. She is fair-skinned, with white dog ears, waist-length, white hair, and silver eyes. She walks around barefoot and wears a light blue hitoe, with sode-kukuri through the sleeves and open shoulders. Muna-himo are attached to each lapel and are tied in front to keep the garment closed. The slits on the sides of her nagabakama, and the openings at the sleeves and shoulders of her hitoe, shows the white kosode that she sports underneath. She also wears a light blue nagabakama, which includes the small board on the lower back. She sports a light blue obi, over all her other garments. She also has a white wolf tail. Her clothing is colored in her Elemental trademark of her home, where she used to reside in the South. Only, she's been from place to place, wandering around almost the whole area of Japan, having no permanent place to stay. Her height appears to be 5'4", her weight seems to be 110lbs, and her bust size looks to be a 36DD. She goes by the name of Heiri and she was born in a demon village that resides in the South, known as Hasunohana. Heiri tends to act and dress more dog demoness than she does wolf demoness. Heiri got separated from her family at a young age, so she's pretty much been on her own.

At first, these two didn't get along with each other at all, mainly due to Ashuri's upbringing. However, Ashuri's turned over a new leaf since then and now these two could almost be sisters, only that is not the case. Heiri and Ashuri have wandered all over Japan together since they were twelve and they've done so all the way up to this point. They haven't returned to Ashuri's home ever since.

"Hey, Ashuri." Heiri says. Ashuri stops and looks over her shoulder at her. "What exactly are we looking for?" Asks Heiri. "I don't really know to tell you the truth." Ashuri says. "Is your cousin always this descriptive?" Asks Heiri. "Mostly. However, some days are better than others." Ashuri says.

"Hey, you guys."

"Huh?" Asks both Heiri and Ashuri. They both look up to the top of the tree where the voice came from.

A wolf demoness is standing on a branch of the tree. She appears to be a year older than Ashuri and Heiri, being nineteen. She has tan skin, with pointy ears, lilac eyes, and wavy, mid-back-length, cherry-red hair, which is tied up into twin tails, with dark green cords. She also wears a band that goes across her forehead. She sports feminine-styled, light green and black armor, from her chest to her waist, which forms similarly to a sweetheart bodice. Unlike the other two, she wears a dark green, wolf pelt mini-skirt. She also has dark green wolf fur draped over her shoulders, fuzzy dark green bracelets and fuzzy dark green legwarmers, that match her skirt, and she walks around barefoot, like Heiri does. She also has a reddish-brown wolf tail. Her height appears to be 5'5", her weight seems to be 114lbs, and her bust size looks to be a 34DDD. Her name is Alektra, but she prefers to be called Allie, and her home resides in the East. Allie's clothing color scheme shows her Elemental trademark.

Allie and Ashuri are cousins, but they didn't have the same upbringing as each other. So, Allie never had a problem with Heiri. Allie then jumps down from the branch, landing on her feet. "Hey, cous." Allie says.

"Allie, you're late as usual." Says Ashuri, as she walks past her.

"You really should lighten up, Ashuri. No good can come of it being so serious all the time." Allie says.

"Allie's right about that, do you always have to be the serious one?" Asks Heiri.

Ashuri stops walking and turns to face them.

Heiri's now standing beside Allie, her arms folded across her chest, making her long hitoe sleeves hide her hands and arms within them.

"At least one of us is serious, while the other two just act as little pups, playing around and complaining." Ashuri says.

"Ashuri, relax. You really need to learn to control your anger management issues." Says Allie, as she places her hands on her hips. Heiri smiles a bit and makes a small giggle.

"I do not have anger issues!" Ashuri says.

"Okay, your temper then." Says Heiri. Both her and Allie laugh at that.

Ashuri puts her hands on her hips. "My temper is perfectly under control, thank you very much." Ashuri says.

"Then how come you're so serious all the time?" Asks Heiri. "Yeah, you weren't always like this. Or at the very least this serious." Allie says.

"Sometimes, it's time to face the facts and grow up, to leave pupish things in the past." Says Ashuri.

"Oh come on, you can't be serious about not having a little fun from time to time." Allie says. "Allie's right, its fun to act as a little pup again, once in a while." Says Heiri.

"Can we just go?" Ashuri asks. She then starts walking again.

Heiri and Allie both let out a sigh and just follow after her.

Just then, someone collides into Ashuri from the side, fast and hard enough to knock her over.

"Ashuri!" Says Heiri. She and Allie both run over to Ashuri.

When they get there, another demoness ended up colliding into Ashuri and ended up landing beside her, lying on top of her mokomoko. Ashuri gets up to her hands and knees, sitting up and holding at the side of her head. Allie then kneels down to one knee beside Ashuri and places one of her hands on her shoulder, while Heiri stands nearby, standing somewhat over her. "You alright, Ashuri?" Allie asks. "Yeah." Says Ashuri. The other demoness that collided into her, gets up, runs right past Heiri and into the bushes to hide.

"Hey." Heiri says. Allie helps Ashuri up to her feet. "Yeah, you better run and I hope you found a good hiding place because when I find you, I'm going to kill you." Says Ashuri. "Ashuri, that's not nice to say to someone. It's not like she ran into you on purpose." Heiri says. "Heiri's right, she's probably just scared of you because you do get pretty scary when your mad." Says Allie. Ashuri just folds her arms over her chest, making her long haori sleeves hide her arms and hands, similar to what Heiri was doing before. Heiri then walks over to where the demoness ran off, trying to find where she hid herself. "You can come on out little demoness, we won't hurt you." Heiri says.

"Speak for yourself, Heiri." Says Ashuri. "Shh, Ashuri be nice." Allie says.

"Little demoness, are you still there?" Asks Heiri.

The demoness suddenly pops out of her hiding place. "Who are you calling a 'little demoness'?!" This demoness is fair-skinned, with light brown rabbit ears, her left ear is tilted at the top, shoulder-length, brunette hair and aquamarine eyes. She's wearing a yellow hitoe, with sode-kukuri through the sleeves and open shoulders. Muna-himo are attached to each lapel and are tied in front to keep the garment closed. The slits on the sides of her nagabakama, and the openings at the sleeves and shoulders of her hitoe, shows the white kosode that she sports underneath. She also wears a yellow nagabakama, which includes the small board on the lower back. She sports an orange sash, over all her other garments. She also has a light brown, fluffy, rabbit tail. She walks around barefoot, like Heiri and Allie. Only her feet and legs are structured as a rabbits, but unlike normal rabbits she walks on her feet similar to how a fox demon would. She appears to be the same age as Ashuri and Heiri, eighteen, her height appears to be 5'2", her weight seems to be 104lbs, and her bust size looks to be a 32AA.

"What type of demoness are you?" Allie asks.

"Isn't it obvious? I'm a rabbit demoness." "Oh, your ears are so cute!" Says Heiri, playing with her rabbit ears.

"You're a half-demoness, aren't you?" Ashuri asks.

"Unfortunately, but I have no objections for being half-demoness, half-human." "Ashuri, who cares if she's a half-demoness. I think her ears and tail are cute." Says Heiri.

"So, what's your name?" Allie asks.

"If you must know, my name is Ani. I was born in a human village some distance away from here. I'm sort of on my own, which I don't really mind. I can take care of myself." Ani has been eyeing at Ashuri's mokomoko for some time now. "Well, it's nice to meet you, Ani. I'm Heiri. I'm actually a quarter-demoness." "Oh, is that so?" Asks Ani. "Uh-huh. I'm half-dog demoness, half-wolf demoness and quarter-human." Heiri says. "So, your parents were both half-demon's then? And I'm guessing you have the power of the Water Element?" Asks Ani. "Yeah, how could you tell?" Heiri asks. "Uh, well. Your clothing color kind of gives it away." Says Ani. "Oh, right." Heiri says, embarrassed.

Allie starts to walk over to her and Heiri. "Hi, my name is Alektra. But please, call me Allie. I'm a wolf demoness."

"I could kind of tell by your tail. And I'm guessing your power is the Earth Element?" Asks Ani.

Allie stops short of them and nods. She then gestures towards Ashuri. "And this is my younger cousin. This is Ashuri and she's a dog demoness." Allie says. "I can speak for myself you know, Allie?" Asks Ashuri. "Sorry for trying to help you out." Allie says.

"I'm guessing from your outfit color and the designs on your outfit, that you possess the power of the Fire Element?" Asks Ani.

"That's right." Ashuri says.

"Hey, what's your Elemental power, Ani? That is, if you have one of the Elements." Says Heiri. "My Element is some what unheard of and very rare to possess." Ani says.

"And what Element would that be?" Asks Ashuri.

"Allow me to show you." Ani says. With her powers, she's only able to move Allie and Ashuri, lifting them off of their feet.

Ani then slams them both against two separate trees, hard. "Allie! Ashuri! What are you doing to them?" Asks Heiri.

What she hasn't noticed is that the armor around Allie and Ashuri is getting tighter on them, squeezing them and possibly cutting off their oxygen.

"I'm able to control and bend any type of Metal." Ani says.

"...Heiri... don't just stand there…" Says Ashuri, breathlessly.

"…Help us…" Allie says, breathlessly.

Heiri does the unthinkable and bashes Ani on the head, making her release Allie and Ashuri.

Heiri then runs over to them. "Are you two alright?" Asks Heiri. "Yeah." Allie says. "Thanks." Says Ashuri. "No prob." Heiri says.

Ani then takes her chance and runs for it, with her rabbit feet she can run very fast.

"Hey, you come back here!" Says Ashuri. She gets up and takes off after Ani.

Heiri helps Allie up to her feet. "Ashuri, hold on a minute!" Heiri says. She runs off, following after Ashuri.

"Wait for us!" Says Allie. She then goes running to catch up with Heiri and Ashuri.

Allie is able to catch up to Heiri, but Ashuri is far ahead of both of them.

A short while later, Ashuri finally comes to a stop, in the middle of an abandoned village.

Heiri and Allie both finally catch up to Ashuri and stop a short distance behind her. "Where did Ani run off to?" Heiri asks. "I'm not sure, I lost her and her scent." Says Ashuri. "Well, at least we're okay." Allie says. All three of them are now looking around, in all different directions. "This village is so torn down and empty." Says Allie. "I wonder what happened here. There doesn't seem to be no one else here but us." Heiri says. "You don't know that for sure, Heiri. Lets try looking around, but be cautious alright." Says Ashuri. She starts walking ahead to go investigate the place further.

Allie heads in a different direction and Heiri goes opposite of her.

The sun is beginning to set, when Heiri is still wandering around. "This village is abandoned. I wonder what happened to this place." Heiri thinks to herself. She then stops for a minute. A trap door suddenly opens and she falls straight into it, with a loud scream.

It was loud enough to stop Ashuri in her tracks. "Heiri!" Ashuri says. She starts running in the direction Heiri screamed from, only to be stopped by another scream, one she's never heard before. The scream sounded that of a child, but it was loud enough. "That other scream came from nearby, but where exactly?" Ashuri thinks to herself. She looks around her area, only to see nothing. Ashuri's eyes soon stumble on a small, but decent looking temple that's still left standing. As she is about to turn and leave, Ashuri hears the child scream again. "The screaming is coming from that temple. Perhaps, I should check it out. Heiri will be fine without me for a few minutes." Ashuri thinks to herself. She then runs towards the temple.

Meanwhile, Allie is still out investigating. Allie walks past torn down house, after another. "There is no way anyone still lives in this village." Allie thinks to herself. She soon starts hearing voices, soft and low, but easy enough for her to hear. "Hello?" Asks Allie. She starts looking around to come across a small house that's still left standing. "Is someone in there?" Allie asks. She walks over towards the house and lifts up the blanket that's hanging over the door frame. "Anybody in here that's still alive?" Asks Allie. She walks in, with caution, aware that this could end up being a trap.

Allie suddenly hears female laughing coming from behind herself and turns to see another demoness standing in the doorway from where she came from, a demoness that she has never seen before.

She is fair-skinned, with pointed ears, red eyes, and black hair, with feather ornaments styled into it. She wears a white and crimson-violet patterned dancers kimono, over a blue dancers kimono and a green basic kosode. Her clothes are tied down by the waist with a yellow obi, that is much slimmer than normal obi's of this time, and is tied at the front instead of the back. She also wears a pair of bright green beaded earrings, each bearing five beads and a feather on each end. She walks around barefoot and carries a fan in one of her hands. She appears to be seventeen, her height appears to be 5'3", her weight seems to be 140lbs, and her bust size looks to be a 30C.

"Who are you?" Allie asks.

The demoness unfolds her fan and fans herself with it. "Of course, where are my manners? I am Kagura, the Wind Sorceress."

"What is it that you want and why are you here hiding in this village? Wait, are you the one that brought devastation to this village?" Asks Allie.

"You ask too many questions. I see that you're a wolf demoness, your tail gives it away." Kagura says.

"So what if I am? Do you have something against wolf demons or something?" Asks Allie.

"Not exactly, but I have killed other wolf demons like yourself once before. Only one wolf demon has ever managed to escape me and don't feel so lucky that you will manage to do the same." Kagura says.

"Well, are you going to fight? Or are you going to keep running your mouth all day?" Asks Allie.

"Hm, determined little wolf, aren't you?" Kagura asks.

"You have no idea." Says Allie.

"I could probably imagine, but you really should mind what you say because you never know when you go a little too far." Kagura says. She then positions her fan. "Dance of Blades!" Says Kagura.

Allie is able to dodge the assault and positions herself for a possible second attempt.

"Your speed, it's quite incredible. It seems she was telling the truth about your speed and skills." Kagura says.

"She who?" Asks Allie.

"That doesn't concern you for the moment, you're dealing with me right now. Dance of Blades!" Kagura says.

At the place where Heiri fell in the trap hole, she managed to hurt herself a little bit. Someone is then pulling Heiri out of the hole and places her on the ground, gently. "Hey, wake up, miss."

Heiri's dog ears twitch a bit and she starts to come to. When she opens her eyes, there's a young fox demon standing there. He is fair-skinned, with narrow and pointed ears, auburn hair, which is kept up in a small ponytail, with a turquoise bow, green eyes, a cream-colored, fluffy tail, and fox paws for feet. He's wearing blue pants, a turquoise shirt, patterned with leaves, and a tan vest, with a thin, black belt. He appears to be only seven, his height seems to be merely 1'5", and his weight looks to be just 9lbs. "Huh?" Asks Heiri. "Hey, miss, are you okay?" "Yeah, I think so. But how were you able to pull me out of that hole? I mean, your just a little kit." Heiri says. "Oh, I'm not the one who pulled you out. She did." The little fox points behind Heiri.

Heiri looks and sees… "Ani!" Says Heiri, surprised. She manages to sit up, looking Ani in the eyes, silver eyes meeting aquamarine eyes. "You pulled me out of that trap hole? Why?" Heiri asks. "I felt kind of bad for what I tried to do to your friends. So, I wanted to try and make amends. I couldn't find the other two. So, I ended up finding you in that trap hole." Says Ani. "Oh. Well, thanks, I guess." Heiri says. She then turns her attention to the fox demon. "And who are you, little kit?" Asks Heiri. "I'm Shippo. I kind of lost my friends. So, I stumbled here in this village, ran into Ani and then we found you." "Oh. Well, don't worry, Shippo. After we find my friends, we'll help locate yours." Heiri says. "Thanks, I appreciate that. And what's your name?" Asks Shippo. "My name is Heiri." "It's nice to meet you, Heiri. I think your name is pretty." Shippo says. "Oh, why thank you. I like your name, too." Says Heiri. "What kind of demoness are you, Heiri? I can tell that you have human in you, I can smell it, but what type of demoness are you?" Shippo asks. "Well, I'm actually a quarter-demoness. I have a quarter of human in me. My dad was a half-wolf demon, while my mom was a half-dog demoness. So, I'm a wolf-dog quarter-demoness." Says Heiri. "Oh, okay then. Your outfit kind of reminds me of one of my friend's outfits. Only yours is light blue and it suits you very nicely, while my friends is red and a little looser than yours." Shippo says. "And what's your friend's name?" Asks Heiri. "His name is Inuyasha, he's a half-dog demon and half-human. And my other friends are Kagome, who's a human, Miroku, he's a monk, Sango, she's a demon slayer and then there's Kirara the cat demon." Shippo says. "Is that so? Well, I can't wait to meet them, Shippo." Says Heiri. "Should we go and find your friends, Heiri?" Shippo asks. Heiri gets up to her feet. "Yes, Shippo, we should. Come on, they couldn't have gotten too far." Says Heiri.

"But first, you have to go through me."

"Huh?" Heiri asks. When she, Ani and Shippo look...

...It's a seventeen-year-old human man, with tan skin, braided, thigh-length, black hair, and blue eyes. He's wearing a white haori, that has a blue patch on his left shoulder. He's also wearing a pair of white hakamas. He's sporting a type of iron armor, over all his other clothes, with a shoulder guard on his left shoulder, attached to it. It's attached to the rest of the armor by a strip of red cloth. His armor is tied at the waist with a red sash. His armor has a purple, fern-like pattern on it. He has the traditional ninja footwear and he walks around barefoot. He also wears gray gloves, that are held in place by his middle fingers. He has a tattoo of a four-pointed purple star on his forehead, his height appears to be 5'6", and his weight seems to be 132lbs. He carries a large halberd.

Shippo hides behind Heiri and clings to her leg. "Oh no, not him." Says Shippo. "What's wrong, Shippo? Do you know this human?" Heiri asks. "Inuyasha's fought against him before, he's quite a worthy adversary. He's the leader of the group known as the Band of Seven. He's both the youngest and the strongest of the group." Says Shippo.

"Why thanks little fox demon, for those pleasant remarks."

"And what about his halberd?" Ani asks. "That's Banryu, it's pretty powerful. It was able to take down most of this village and kill all the humans that once lived here." Says Shippo. "Who are you, human?" Heiri asks.

"Yes, introductions. I'm Bankotsu, I was originally the leader of the Band of Seven, but now I'm the only one left of them."

"Why are you here and why did you ruin this village and kill innocent people, not to mention your own kind, too?" Asks Heiri.

"That's really none of your business, I was just doing what I was requested to do." Bankotsu says.

"By who?" Asks Ani.

"I wouldn't really call him my master. I can't really put into words what he is exactly, but what I do know is that you won't be leaving here alive." Bankotsu says. He aims Banryu directly at Heiri.

Shippo makes a run for it and hides, taking cover.

Ani follows after Shippo, leaving Heiri to deal with Bankotsu.

Bankotsu charges at Heiri, but she's able to move out of the way in time. "Come now, surely you can do better than that." Says Bankotsu.