An idea that came forth after watching a Inu no Taishou.
Chapter 1
A fire steadily burned as the raging inferno began to destroy the shrine building that held an occupant who had been praying, as they continued their duty to keep a jewel purified that has wreaked havoc across japan. With the battle with the dark half demon over, the danger still lurked as they fruitlessly took it on by themselves even though night has fallen and chance of escaping with their life would no longer be an option performed by their own will as smoke filled their as they lay immobile. The jewel still in its place, untouched on the age old stand.
Ashes lay outside as the conviction of the battle that had been fought between the priestess and eager demons. Her blood leading a path to where she touched the jewel with a bloody finger, purified instantly of any taint it might have grown from the dark desires of those that had attacked her on their way to obtain the power from the jewel. Large puddles of her crimson, virgin blood spilled on the floor as she used her last strength to drag her self to stop the regeneration.
The blood that has once again been splattered, another innocent priestess down, quite likely the most pure one to have yet been born. Yet such a young life, only having been in the line of duty for two years at the matured age of 17. Those meridian blue eyes struggled to cling to the conscious world, unbelieving that after everything that has been endured by her and many others, that this would be her end, a burning end so familiar to her soul. In protest her soul stubbornly stayed put searching out for anything that might save it from yet another terrifying end.
Out beyond the recesses of this realm and into the next a strong pulse surged forth as the calling was met by the rumble of a great beast who has had his attention upon the woman that has intrigued him since she first appeared in the depths of his tomb. "A calling from the living world. My presence is needed but what soul could be tugging so urgently for me to raise to it's calling? Certainly it is not my sons or their mothers." The place shook as it began to almost quiver in small tremors from the being contained within. Then just like that a surge of power blast through the realm as it recessed into a soul, the grave disappearing as it the soul also disappeared into the living realm.
Shooting across the sky, humans without spiritual sense prayed on the perceived shooting star. In the middle of tall bamboo and shot into the burial mound, light erupting as it merged with it's body, muscle tissue growing as it attached itself to nerve endings, all forming around bones as the skin covered the once dead being. A clawed hand shot out of the ground as braced it self to pull their body up. The calling came from in the distance, a soul that his recognized as they both sent him a feeling of urgency. Clearing his mind from the thoughts beginning to stir, his sharp eyes peering into the distance as they stretched and rolled kinks out. Without anymore stalling they pushed off the ground with their mighty legs and transformed into an orb and shot back off through the sky to where the soul is calling.
Gold eyes searched in the direction they had felt the disturbance as they narrowed dangerously as they watched the orb take off into the night sky. Forming their cloud his companions got on without remark, that would have surprised him had his sights not been on the power that traveled with a new purpose. "So he lives again." The cloud rose up and soared into the sky, following the residual power that trailed behind them.