A Silent Guardian and Friend
Chapter 1- Injured Youkai
Unknown P. O. V.
The gray clouds were gathering, wind blowing harshly. Soon the sky had started to rain. Rumbling thunder can be heard. Strikes of lightning can be seen flashing in front of my eyes. The rain was pouring on me, my freshly wounded body.
I just had a fight during the day. A fight over territory. Fortunately, I won but badly injured. I was feeling very weak these few days and now more injuries on me. Just what I needed. Ha, by the look of it, I won't survived any longer. Anyone would be happy if I died. Ugh, Pain was all over me. At last, my mind had slipped into darkness.
End of P. O. V.
It was raining cats and dogs. Masahiro was walking home from the omyou dorm with an umbrella in his hand. A mononoke was sitting on his left shoulder, "Man, I hate it when it rains." The young omyouji chuckled, "Well, I can't make it stop now, can I?" The mononoke just sighed tiredly.
Suddenly, a red flash caught Masahiro's eyes. "Mokkun, did you see something under that tree?" The white youkai focused his eyes under the particular tree, "It looks like a youkai but it was either asleep in this kind of weather or it had passed out due to blood loss." Upon hearing the word 'blood', Masahiro rushed to the said youkai, ignoring Mokkun's protests.
Once they were close enough, they saw the injured youkai. It was a stripless tiger. Three golden horns grew on top of its head, white smoke-like mane swaying slightly above the head covering some of its body. Its fur was a strange mixture of red and silver. Two black spikes on each of its front legs. On its body were tons of fresh wounds, blood still pouring out freely, making the ground around it staining red.
"Looks like it had a terrible fight.' Said Masahiro, kneeling down to examine the wounds. "This is bad! Guren, we have to take it back!", then he whistled. At a distance, there was something heading towards the trio.
It was Kuromanosuke, a carriage youkai. It had heard Masahiro's whistle and came to his aid. "Take us back to my house." Ordered Masahiro while carrying the injured youkai into the carriage youkai with Guren's help. Noticing the situation, Kuromanosuke went at full speed towards the boy's house.
"Please, just hold on a little longer." Pleaded Masahiro silently, laying the youkai's head at his lap. Mokkun sat at the opposite side and kept starring at the youkai, "There's something weird about its aura and I think I sensed this before."
After a few minutes ride, they reached their destination. Akiko was shocked seeing the injured youkai but quickly regained herself and proceeded to help Masahiro patched up the youkai's wound. Seimei was curious about the noise and went to Masahiro and Akiko but was surprised by the tiger youkai. Yet he felt something familiar with its aura but he let it slipped for the time being.
Both Masahiro and Akiko did a great job bandaging the youkai and it's seemed to sleeping peacefully for now. Mokkun padded into the room, "How is it?" Asked the white youkai. "Well, we're just in time to save it. Now let get some rest." Answered Masahiro. "That was a good idea, I'm tired." Yawned Akiko. With that, the three of them left the room leaving the youkai alone in the room to catch the rest they deserved.