The Inu no Taisho paced up an down the hall as he had been for the last two days. He was growing ever more impatient as the hours passed. It was never good to keep the leader of the dog demons waiting, no matter how kind hearted he may be.
"Damn you!" He growled loud enough for the entire imperial palace to shake around him. Then he went back to his barely patient pacing.
"My Lord, these things do take time. It is best not to be to angry with the InuOjou." A small, but strong voice came from the Inu no Taisho's shoulder. The demon Lord stopped pacing and acknowledged the voice. It was coming from the Lord's vassal, a flea demon.
"I am not angry, Myoga." The Lord sighed, rather grateful for someone to talk to, even if it was a flea. "How is your young bride, the young Shouga?" The flea shuttered at the mere mention of the word 'bride'.
"I have once again barely escaped with my life." The young flea sighed. The demon Lord chuckled. His young vassal had been running away from his bride for the last decade. The Lord's laughter ceased instantly when his keen ears hear soft footsteps beyond the door that he had been obsessed with for the last 48 hours. He turned and stared intently at the large screen sliding door. Slowly, it began to slide open. The Inu no Taisho stared down at an elderly Inu daiyokai.
She was of pale skin with a single pale blue jagged stripe on each cheek. She was loosing her demonic beauty with her old age and starting to look more like her true inu form. She stared gently up at the great dog demon with her patient amber eyes.
"You have an heir, my Lord." The old demoness said in her hoarse voice. A son! The amount of joy that was brought to The Lord was indescribable. Without delay, The Lord flung the sliding door all the way open and entered the room. A large pallet bed was in the middle. The InuOjou sat up in the bed with a small bundle in her arms.
The InuOjou was no doubt a beauty. She was as pale skinned as her mate, the Inu no Taisho. She had a single small magenta colored stripes under each of her golden eyes. They were jagged like two small lightning bolts. And a Prussian blue crescent moon marking on her forehead. She had a look on her face like she was very tired and worn out, though her demeanor showed no signs of this. The great Lord kneeled behind the young demoness, whispering the the words, 'watashi no kimi' softly in her ear. The demoness' face showed no signs of appreciating the endearment The Lord had whispered in her ear.
The Lord looked over the shoulder of the young demoness and the infant that lay quietly in her arms. He was the most amazing thing the Lord had seen in the 2500 years that he had roamed the wild lands that lie below the castle in the sky. The infant undoubtedly resembled his mother more than The Lord himself. He had two magenta stripes under his eyes that extended into his hairline the way the Great Dog Demon's jagged blue markings did. He also had inherited the Prussian blue crescent moon in his forehead from his mother. His amber eyes stared up into the eyes of the great dog demon with no emotion in them. The Inu no Taisho knew this child would be exactly like his mother.
"What shall his name be, my Lord?" The Lady Mother asked as she starred emotionless at the infant in her arms. Her voice, nor her movements showed any signs that the Lady Mother had lay abed for two and a half days from the pains of childbearing. The Lord watched the infant and the infant watched him with eyes that seemed to understand far than a newborn infant should.
"Sesshomaru."