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In an Eastern forest of Feudal Japan, a wounded female demon was leaning against a tree. She'd recently battled an ogre, thinking she could handle the beast on her own. Now because of her lack of judgment, her abdomen was bleeding through her light purple kimono profusely and a few of her ribs had been cracked. Her wolf Tomodachi sat beside her, looking up at his mistress and whining.

"It's alright, Tomo." She said with a smile. "I'm okay. This is just a scratch; it'll stop bleeding in a few minutes."

She stared down at the wolf and reached out a hand to rub his neck. She remembered the day she found him, bleeding to death as a cub, the result of a demon's attack. That was three years ago and she remembered the pitiful look he had in his eyes, his brown fur soaked with blood and how there was no one to protect him while he was completely defenseless.

"Now I'm in the same boat as you were, huh fella?"

He whined a bit more as she lowered herself to the ground. She put her arm around Tomo's neck and the wolf nuzzled under her chin. He stuck his nose in her black-tipped lupine ears and licked the inside of them. She giggled as she hugged him tightly and kissed his wet nose.

"My best friend in the world!" She laughed.

She stopped though when she caught the scent of someone familiar. Someone she hadn't seen in nearly a hundred years.

"It can't be him." She said. "Not Big Brother…He's supposed to be in the West, why is he out here?"

Her ears stood forward and she tensed up. Tomo sensed the change in his mistress's mood and growled softly. Silencing the wolf, she stared into the distance, waiting for something to happen. Her heart skipped a beat when she saw the familiar sight of a demon, a dragon, an imp and…a human girl?

"What the hell…" She said out loud. "What's he doing with a human?"

Not paying attention, she loosened her grip on Tomo and he bolted out toward the figures. She gasped and lunged forward to catch him but only managed to grab a few hairs from his tail.

"Tomo, no!" She shouted. "Get back here!"

Seeing how he wasn't slowing down, she sprang to her feet and bounded after the wolf despite her injury. She didn't want Tomo to get hurt.

"Damn it Tomo, get back here!" She screamed.

He was not three feet from the newcomers when green whips of light lashed out from the demon's claws, tearing through his body. The she-demon dropped to the ground as she watched blood spurt out of the gashes on her beloved wolf. Tears rolled down the sides of her face as Tomo looked at her the same way he did three years ago. She bit her bottom lip and pulled him onto her lap, letting her tears flow freely.

"So good to see you Tanto." The demon said coldly. "It's been awhile."

She looked up at her brother, tears still streaming down her face. His silver hair was clearly visible in the darkness of the night, just like hers. She could see the crescent moon on his forehead and his striped cheeks. She brushed her claws against the side of her face as if to try and locate her markings.

'Mine look more like Father's...' She thought to herself.

She snapped back to reality because she could smell the scent of Tomo's blood. Tanto pinned her ears against her head as she glared up at Sesshoumaru. Just as she was about to speak, Tomo convulsed and blood trickled from his mouth. Tanto held her breath and within moments, Tomo lay still in her lap, to never move again.

"You…You bastard!" She sobbed as she hugged her wolf's dead body. "You killed him! What the hell is wrong with you Sesshoumaru?!"

Tanto cried into Tomo's fur and Sesshoumaru lifted her off the ground by her ear. His eyes burned with anger as he stared into his sister's.

"Don't ever address me that way, cross-breed!" He spat.

She merely smirked and cocked one of her eyebrows. This annoyed her brother and he twisted her ear hard. As he did this, she began to laugh, knowing that it would make him even angrier. Tanto just loved to piss him off.

"What's wrong, Big Brother?" She asked innocently. "Still upset over the fact that I'm more special than you are because I'm half dog and half wolf? And why are you addressing me like I'm our sorry excuse for a brother? After all I'm not the half-demon in the family, Inuyasha is."

She tried to look at the girl on the dragon's back. She'd heard rumors about her older brother taking a human child under his care but she never believed it. She grinned from ear to ear exposing her sharp canine-like fangs.

"Have you turned your back on your own kind?" She smirked. "Abandoning your demon heritage to care for humans just like Father did? What a fool he was."

"Don't you dare speak of Father like that!" He snarled as he threw his sister against a nearby tree.

She hit the trunk with a loud thud and fell to the ground. Tanto lay there for a few moments before rising to her feet, laughing. Her ears stood strait up, showing how big they really were and her eyes seemed to flash red.

"You still haven't realized it yet, have you?" She laughed. "I'm pissing you off because you hurt me so badly. You brought this upon yourself, Sesshoumaru. Had you let Tomodachi live, had you not slaughtered him, then you wouldn't be tormented so. And now, you're going to pay for murdering my only comrade."