The night air was warm but comfortable as the wind ruffled through her silver fur. The golden eyes of the daiyōkai narrowed in annoyance as she waited for the rest of her hunting party to lure and chase their quarry into the ambush. Kimaru and her pack had been dealing with The Birds of Paradise since they had come to join with the Eastern Wolf Tribe. Kimaru's mother, Tsuki no Nisshoku, and her mate sent their errant daughter to the East to join forces with Kouga. Tsuki had hoped that the young Alpha would tame her eldest daughter. Kimaru crouched lower to the ground and growled an almost inaudible order to her subordinates to ready them-selves.

Her small party of three wolf yōkai and two human form yōkai readied their claws and swords as the two Harpies flew into view chased by another group of five. The birds were monstrous beasts with the bodies of giant demon crows with a male or female heads. They had the flight of birds and the intelligence of yōkai making them formidable opponents, but the wolves were easily a match for them. A group of five could take out a single Harpy with minor difficulties simply because of the bird's sheer size. Kimaru snarled and launched herself from their vantage point into the nearest harpy, the female, avoiding the claws and wrapping her wicked teeth around the human-esc throat. She hummed happily as she felt the yōkai shudder and die beneath her maw, its life-blood soaking her soft silver pelt in warm, sticky, black gore. Kimaru jumped free of the corpse as it hit the earth and watched as her pack tore the male harpy limb from limb. One of the wolves brought one of the severed limbs for first bite, as was her right as Alpha, but she threw it from her in disgust.

"Do not bother eating them. They are not so strong that we would gain any power from their flesh." Kimaru stood to her full height of fourteen feet tall and swished her luxurious purple-tipped silver tail. Her coloring was odd even for a demon, silver being her predominant coloring, but for the purple fur that colored the end half of her tail. "Let's head back to our mates." She smiled to herself as her hunting party howled a victorious song.

-Meanwhile back at the den-

Ginta and Hakkaku glance around nervously as Kouga throws a struggling Kagome and Shippo onto his bed furs. "Um…Kouga I don't think Kimaru is going to be happy that you brought a human into our den, let alone that she's in the bed you share with the female Alpha." Kouga merely looked over at his subordinates with a smirk.

"Do you think that woman scares me? I need more Shikon jewel shards and this lovely girl can help me find them."

Everyone in the den flinched as an icy voice washed over them. "This woman better scare you. I'm more demon than you are and you know it. If it wasn't for the fact that my parents ordered me to incorporate your pack, I would have just destroyed it. Now do you mind explaining what a human woman with that half-breed mutt's stench is doing in our bed?"

In the doorway stood a beautiful demon with purple tipped silver hair, braided down the length of her back and thrown over the front of her shoulder. She wore a short length purple kimono with no sleeves and a black armor chest plate. She had no shoes but fur wrapped around her ankles and fur gloves that went up to her elbows, but the most remarkable thing about her were her golden irises. At the moment those hypnotic eyes were narrowed into slits and her nose was wrinkled in disgust.

Kouga smiled half-heartedly, "welcome back Kimaru. I take it hunting was successful?"