Snow fell over the land during the warring states era of Japan. A thick blanket covered the ground and all the villages were quiet. The sun was setting and all the families were huddled inside next to their fires for the night. It was a silent night, so some thought. Little did anyone know, that the white demon wolf tribe of the southern mountains was under attack by Naraku's Hordes. Poison insects and the whole lot were crashing down on the pack, going after the leader and his family as their main targets. The Alpha had failed to return a small favor due to Naraku after defeating a small birds of Paradise flock.

The demons swarmed as the wolves fought to keep their home safe, the Alpha tried to organize the rest of the pack to fight back for the best strategy. While doing so his only daughter approached him with a weapon in her hand.

"Father, I'm ready! I will fight along side you!" she said bravely. She was a dark haired female of the pack with striking green amber eyes. Her face slender and soft, but she had the fight of a warrior in her eyes. Her long ebony hair blowing in the wind of chaos.

"No Kita, you are to stand down! I will not loose you! Now go to the cave!" her father order. He was a very talk well built wolf. His amber eyes shown brightly as the sun began to set that day. His dark chestnut hair was up in a high tight pony tail to keep it from his face. His eyes showed he would take no arguments from his daughter if it meant she was to be safe.

"Father! How are we suppose to stand a chance if all your best warriors are not fighting?" she shouted among the sounds of war. She heard a loud scream come from behind and a slender, agile figure pushed past her and her father. It was her mother. She was the best warrior their pack had. "Mother is even fighting."

"Your mother is the chief of our warriors, of course she is! You are the princess of the pack you are to stay back and be protected!" with that he leaped of into battle."You go to the cave and stay safe! I will return for you when this is over!" Then he was gone.

Kita gritted her teeth and ran to retrieve her bow and quiver from the hold. She clawed her way past weaker demons and managed to get to high ground where she would have a better eye of her enemies. She braced herself on a large boulder and took aim of a ogre like demon running toward a young male wolf demon fighting for the pack. She slowed her breathing and felt the bow become one with her own body. She took in a deep breath, pulled an arrow from the quiver and loaded it swiftly and aimed for the eye of the ogre. She took another slow deep breath as she pulled back and released the arrow. It soared through the air and hit the ogre square. She smirked slightly as she thought of her fathers words. She would prove him wrong, a princess place was not to stay hidden and safe. She felt she was to be a warrior just like her mother was.

Kita had just turned 18 in humans years which was the equivalent of 450 in demons years. She knew her way around battle and it was pathetic that she had to sit by idol and watch her pack be torn to shreds. She began to load another arrow into her bow and was suddenly picked up into the air by a dragon looking demon. She still had the use of her hands and loaded another arrow, and shot the demon square in the jaw. She was now over 500 feet in the air as the demon, now dead, began to spiral downward into a thick forest that was now below them. She knew there was a good chance she wouldn't survive the fall, but it was a risk she knew could save her pack. For the sake of the pack her life was worth the lives that would be saved. They continued to fall and soon crashed among the trees. She was caught by the branches and was knocked out by a large branch the Dragon demon brought down.

Kita awoke hanging from the tree, a light snow now falling and the sun was shining. She took in her surroundings and noticed she was still hanging upside down. She slowing and carefully tried to sit up. He back hurt from the impact and her eye black from the branch that had crashed down on her, and she also notices as she stabilized herself on this tree that her arm had been cut open from the fall. She ripped a piece of her fur pelt skirt and tied it around her arm to stop the bleeding. After a moment of regaining reality she found her way down from the tree and tracked her way back her packs cave. She sadly had to follow the sent of the blood that was shed from the battle as it was the strongest sent she could smell. She wandered into their family dwelling and look around her.

There was not a single soul remaining here. She closed her eyes and took in the fragrance that flooded her senses. She found her fathers and tracked it to a fallen Bird of Paradise and in the grasp was her father...He was barely clinging onto life as he weakly opens his eyes at the sound of a branch breaking under Kita's feet.

"Kita..." He struggled to whisper her name from his dying lips. His amber eyes were weak and fading, nothing like his eyes from the night before when the pack was going to war. Kita paused, making sure the bird was dead before approaching her father.

"Father..." she sprinted to him and started trying to free him from the birds hulking grasp.

"Kita..." he said again. "I thought I told you...I'd come for you when this was over..." He struggled some to relieve some pain from his ribs. They were crushed by the grasp of the bird.

"If I had listened to you, you would have never come for me. I'd be sitting the cave wondering where on earth you were and worried." She snarled sarcastically as she continued to try and free her father.

"You didn't...go back to the cave?" he questioned weakly. "I told you to stay safe...!"

"Have you ever... Known me to stay safe...I'm your daughter who went and played with goblins at a young age..." she snapped. "Now let me get you out of here."

"please save me the pain...If you get me out of this grasp...My chest will collapse and I'll suffocate." he sighed...

"No father! I'll save you. Then We'll find mother..." she started to weep.

"Kita, your mother is dead...please just let me die here...You need to go find our ally in the west...Inu Taisho...He will help you for a short time till you can find a place to stay... a new pack...the pack has been wiped out. You need...to find a place where you will be safe and Naraku can't find you..." he warned.

"Who? The old dog demon? We haven't had contact with him in years...what makes you think he is still our ally?" She questioned...

"We have given him no reason to change his alliance with us..." he struggled to speak... "Just go to him...tell him who you are... get there as soon as possible...Naraku... will be looking for you as soon as he knows you are alive..." He took another shallow breath.." Go..." He spoke with his last breath. His eyes closed.

Kita's eyes began to fill with tears...She was now hit with the reality that she was all alone. Her pack had been completely wiped out by Naraku and she watched her father die before her eyes. How much more could she possibly go through.

After an hour of anger and almost breaking her hand of the carcass of the bird of paradise, scavenged any food and stable weapons she could. She knew she would have to start her travels to the west and fast. Naraku was probably already on the hunt for her and she had to fulfill her fathers dying orders.

She attached a dagger to her leg and a bow and quiver to her back and set off to find Inu Taisho and the safety of his castle in the western lands.