Disclaimer: I don't own Nurarihyon no Mago despite wishing I did.

I got bored of waiting for someone to write a decent story for this fandom so I'm writing my own, please tell me what you think.

Youkai are still in this world, hidden from humans prying eyes yet living amongst us to this very day. There is a most fearful clan in the town of Ukiyoe on the Kantou Plain.

The Nura clan.

This story is about how it recovered from the hardships it had been dealt and how it overcame all the odds to rise again as the most feared clan among youkai. It starts off as the young master has defeated one of the members of his clan in a test, little did they know they were being observed.

"Is this ok?" asked the white and black haired girl. Her companion, a girl the same age with golden hair smirked.

"This is fine," she answered. "I can see that things will be getting very interesting here from now on." She chuckled slightly. "We'll give it a few days before we go to the main house though. I want to get away from responsibility for a little bit longer." The first girl rolled her eyes and shook her head.

"You're hopeless," she murmured.

"Maybe." The golden haired girl smiled softly. "But I don't think that's going to matter much in the future, do you?"

They both turned to stare down at the young boy in the yukata walking across the veranda. This could possibly be their future master, the youkai that they choose to follow and give their lives for and he wasn't even a youkai all the time. The second girl glanced at the dark haired youkai lying on the futon just inside.

Gyuuki… well I guess he's fairly impressive, if you're in that state. She smiled broadly and stood up from her crouch. The other girl looked at her puzzled.

"Master?" she asked questioningly.

"Come on, we should leave before someone notices us," she said turning away and walking towards the bottom of the mountain.

"You don't want to make sure they're alright?" the girl with two toned hair asked, she had huge black wings that rustled slightly when she moved.

"No, I'm sure they'll be fine. They're both strong enough to survive the attack itself so they'll recover easily," answered the other.

"Are we going to the main house now?"

"Yes, but I don't want to travel as a human. We've been using disguises so much recently I've forgotten what I look like!" The winged girl scowled.

"You only have to change your eye colour! I'm the one that has to change loads!"

"Hai, hai. But since we'll be travelling as we are we'll only be able to travel at night and we should walk to make sure one of those radars doesn't pick us up again," she said glaring slightly at the winged girl who blushed.

"It was only once, and how was I to know there was an air force base in the region?" she exclaimed.

"Besides if we're walking maybe I'll be able to bag a few fights before we get to the main house," pondered the golden haired girl. "I probably won't be able to get a good fight though, they're all weak around here." The winged girl rolled her eyes.

"Fighting… I swear that's all you think about."

"Probably… hey! What did I say about you calling me master! Don't think I didn't notice when you said it earlier!" scowled the golden one. The other smiled sweetly.

"I know, Master." They both grinned and disappeared in the early morning mist that had descended upon the mountain.

A few days later:

"Nura Rikuo?" Rikuo turned to see who had called as Ao and Yuki Onna moved to protect him.

"Yes?" he asked. "I'm Nura Rikuo." The girl who had asked smiled. He noticed she was wearing black jeans and t-shirt and had long golden hair with grey eyes.

"Could I tag along with you?" she asked moving closer. "I need to speak to your grandfather." Rikuo blinked.

"Grandfather?" Then his eyes widened slightly. "Oh! So you're-"

"Ookami-sama!" cried Ao coming to clap her shoulder. "I almost didn't recognise you, it's been a while since you've come back to the main house." He grinned. "You get tired of wandering around?" She shrugged and ran a hand through her hair.

"Something like that," she sighed. "I also heard that… someone is going to take over as third," she said glancing at Rikuo. Yuki Onna glared at her.

"Rikuo-sama is going to be the third!" The girl smiled disarmingly.

"Yes, that's what I heard." Yuki Onna pouted.

"And, do you approve?"

"I'll let you know… once I get his measure."

Rikuo kept glancing at the girl as they walked towards the house, she looked about his age and was a little bit taller, she didn't look like a youkai but appearances can be deceptive. When they finally entered the gate Ao and Yuki Onna sighed with relief and dropped their human disguises. The girl turned to Rikuo.

"I can transform now?" He nodded.

"Yes, we're safe inside the main house." She nodded and let go of her human disguise.

She immediately grew taller and now looked about eighteen, her eyes changed to a golden colour and her pupils became slitted. She now wore a short, sleeveless kimono in red with a black obi decorated with a white crescent moon. Rikuo was quite surprised when a wolf skin with the top half of the wolf's head intact appeared and rested on top of her head. When she turned to him all he could see of her face was of below her nose, she smiled at him.

"I'm sorry for not introducing myself," she said bringing her face as close as she could with the wolf head in the way. "My name is Kin Ookami, a member of the Nura clan."

In his mind's eye Rikuo could see a map of the clan's territory. Ookami had been written in the middle of a huge forest to the west of the main house.

"Oh, so you're from west of here, then?" She looked surprised that he knew but nodded any way. "I wondered what your family was like, before Karasu showed me the map I'd never heard of you and I've never seen one of you at the main house before either." Kin smiled softly.

"Well that's no surprise, I haven't been here since long before you were born," she explained. "And I'm the only one you could have seen." Rikuo frowned confused.

"Why is that?" Ao looked uncomfortable.

"Err master maybe you shouldn't-"

"Its ok Ao," interrupted Kin. "I'd rather tell him myself." She was staring at him; he could feel it even through the wolf head. "My family is Ookami, as you can probably guess we're wolf youkai. One hundred years ago youkai from Shikoku attacked us and wiped out every single member, except me." He stared at her in shock. "I was there at the time, I had to watch as they were all killed. Afterwards your grandfather took care of me for a while until I recovered. The last time I was at the main house was about ninety years ago when I decided to go back to our forest to protect it on my own."

"So why are you here now?" asked Rikuo.

"Well, I don't really need to protect it anymore," she said rubbing the back of her neck. "It's surrounded by other Nura groups so no trouble makers ever end up reaching it. The whole area is basically empty."

"Kin, is that you?" called Nurarihyon, she turned around grinning.

"Old man!" she cried running to hug him.

"Don't call me old man, ungrateful whelp," he admonished, she laughed. "Why on earth are you wearing your battle outfit?" he asked. She paused then seemed to realise what she was wearing.

"Oh… I guess I'm just use to wearing it, I've got into a lot of fights recently."

Rikuo frowned. Didn't she say no one got through to her area?

Kin pulled the skin off and bundled it into her arms. Rikuo choked as a pair of wolf ears on her head twitched and a tail waved back and forth lazily.

"What?" she asked looking back at him.

"You have ears… and a tail!" She raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah… I'm an Ookami, of course I have ears and a tail." Nurarihyon clapped her on the back and led her into the house.

"Come on Kin, we need to catch up on things." Kin continued to stare back at Rikuo as she was led into the house.

"So he's going to be the third?" she mused.

"Yes," replied Nurarihyon. "My grandson, he only just changed his mind and decided that he wants to do it."

"So I've heard," she said, then she laughed. "I've also heard he beat Gyuuki."

"That was only a few days ago," he said. "And you've already heard?" She shrugged.

"Its big news, Gyuuki is still known as a powerful youkai." They sat down on the floor in silence for a while, Kin closed her eyes.

"So, you've come back to the main house," stated Nurarihyon. "Are you ready to take up your responsibility and your place in the meetings?" She snorted and slowly opened her eyes.

"I'll take my place in those meetings when I pledge myself. They're so boring! Officially my family is part of the Nura clan, but I'm all that's left to represent it and I haven't personally pledged to anyone." She stared at the ceiling and leaned back. "I want to be sure that they're worthy of my respect and that I won't regret giving my life for them."

"You won't regret giving your life for him," stated Nurarihyon.

"I'll be the judge of that."

Please review, I would really like to continue this story but it would be nice to have some support for it to show people are interested.

Thanks for reading!