The woman eyes unknowingly lingers on the little brunette haired girl, who was genuinely ecstatic that a complete and total stranger joins them for dinner. She releases a quiet sigh as she recalls, 'I tend to forget that children have secret powers…on how to ease a conversation and think no one can do any harm to them.'
As they head in the direction of the dining area, the woman made it a point to observe her foreign surroundings and committed the layout to memory just in case she might need to escape. 'Even still...I wonder what's hidden under that board?'
Her extremely high sense of curiosity reminds her that she was within distance from the site. All she would have to do was break away from the child name Rin and make a dash in that direction since it was a small window of opportunity to discover what was underneath the house.
"Now its finally even at dinner, two men and two of us." Rin cheerfully proclaims with a honest smile on her face that seem to sharply tug at the older woman's heartstrings. She casually peeks up to see that they finally arrive at the dining area.
Rin released her grip from the older woman's hand before she ran inside of the room while the woman slowly veered around the corner only to find a table covered with food fit for a king and his knights.
"We sit over here." Rin's voice breaks her out of her amazement at the food when she looks at Rin pats a cushion next to her as a gesture for her to sit down.
The dining table was a long flat rectangular black marble table that closely favors the ore obsidian. The plates were constructed from the best ceramics that was probably in their current area and the silk cushions absolutely feels as if she was on a fluffy white cloud.
The room was sparsely decorated except for random scrolls that hung about and the door that led to the kitchen, where the sound of water caught her attention, 'I wonder whose there?'
The woman hears rapid footsteps enter the mansion, which means that whoever it was sprints to their location since it resonates louder and louder by the second until she spots the source of the noise.
What stands before her very own eyes was what appears to be a mash up of a toad and a man as it causes her to silently think, 'I feel sorry for whoever birth such an awfully ugly creature.'
The imp toad heavily breaths while he lazily leans against a wooden cane with a male and a woman's head at the tip of it.
'What kind of cane is that?' The woman wonders until she realizes the little imp points his staff at her and declares, "Where's Lord Sesshomaru? Why is this youkai at our dinner table?"
Rin watches the strange woman to her left exhales a deep sigh as her eyes remain close while she tucks her arms underneath her chest counters, "He's obviously not here! Maybe you should look in the mirror for the answer to your second question."
Jaken was taken aback by the woman's sharp response to his question when he directed his probe to Rin, "Rin, whose this demon? She reeks of a neko-youkai!"
Rin bursts out in a fit of giggles at Jaken's conversation with the woman, who asserts to her companion, "I would obviously reek of a neko-youkai since I am one! I guess since you're a complete idiot then you would not understand."
"The least you can do is give the person, who invited you in the house your name or do you not know how any manners?" Lord Sesshomaru needles after he surfaces from behind Jaken, who looks as if he jumped out of his skin due to being surprised.
"I was born into civilization so I do know how to be polite and show some manners, Lord Sesshomaru." She defends as she addresses Sesshomaru by his formal title.
"Anyway my name's Kirara, a traveling bounty hunter and a part time thief when I need to be." The woman formally introduces herself by the name of Kirara when she instantly sense that Rin develops an immediate liking to her.
"That's such a pretty name." Rin honestly compliments her as Kirara idly faces the girl name Rin and deems that the tot was being completely genuine about what she just said.
"You have a beautiful name too." Kirara returns the compliment while she finds one of her hands ruffle up the little girl's hair before she draws it back to her previous position, which was across her chest.
"My Lord, forgive me for speaking out of term here, but she's a thief! If we let her stay here she may rob you of your treasure." Jaken quietly mutters to Lord Sesshomaru, who merely watches the interactions between the woman name Kirara and Rin.
"You should take that up with Rin. She invited her to dinner." He calmly explains to his subordinate before he leisurely pads his way to the end of the dining table and finally acquires his respective seat.
Rin noted that Sesshomaru had taken a seat at the far edge of the dining table. Kirara observes the brunette haired girl's eyes grow wide from apparent shock when she voices, "Jaken, Lord Sesshomaru is going to eat with us tonight!"
Kirara studies the toad demon name Jaken's facial expression of defeat while he hunkers down at the table before he peers up to see that the woman stares at him. "Humph, stupid cat demon."
"So Ms. Kirara, you're a thief?" Rin curiously probes as she did not speak in usual dishearten tone that a child would speak in after they hear the word thief.
"You forgot the part that I only have to steal if the bounty is not enough money to feed me and my friends. I take their health as my first priority since its kinda of boring if I traveled on my own." Kirara sternly affirms while she randomly piles an array of food items on her plate while Rin selectively reaches for certain items to eat.
"So are they your family? Your face lights up when you talk about them?" Rin inquisitively poses, as she was careful not to push herself to hard to entertain her company for dinner.
Kirara faces Rin, nods her head a yes, and discloses, "Some of them I grew up with and others join the bandwagon later on down the road but I'm actually happier now that I met them. They make the job so much easier."
"Are your whiskers really real?" Rin questions once she makes out that there were three small but visible whiskers on each cheek.
"Do you want to feel them?" Kirara suggests before she leans closer to Rin and feels her small palm gently move across her cheeks as she squeals in delight after she concludes that they were indeed real.
"They'll grow longer whenever I transform," She mentions in a whisper tone after she bites into what looks like tuna and rice.
"So you're really a cat demon." Rin conveys her excitement that continues to grow every time Ms. Kiara would answer any of her questions.
"You can ask your Lord there if you don't believe me. My scent can tell you whether or not I am lying." Kirara challenges Rin since she decides to play with Sesshomaru because he monitors her ever movement around the girl.
"Lord Sesshomaru, is it true that Ms. Kirara is a full fledged neko youkai?" Rin queries because she was aware of how she was going to be able to reap answers from the stoic Lord Sesshomaru.
"She's telling the truth." He reveals to Rin, who beams with a child-like bliss that Ms. Kirara was being honest with the answers to her question.
"Why would you raid this town?" Sesshomaru promptly demands in order to render a judgment on if she was truthful or fake.
"Raid isn't the appropriate word for you to use for this particular mission of mines. Its more of two things: (1) the bait and switch plan and (2) if we have to conduct a search and destroy."
"If you think that that is carelessness on our part then you're probably correct with your accusations. However, this one isn't like the others that I have encountered. This one hides among humans and eat when it has too. It cleans up after itself and leaves no type of trace behind so we can follow it." Kirara explains her presence in the village when she bites a roll of bread and plucks a piece of tempura fish with her chopsticks.
"So you plan to burn down an entire village if you can't find this demon? That sounds as if you can't execute your job correctly. I thought you would have been able to sniff that thing out by now." Sesshomaru merely states his opinion of the matter at hand after he closely listens to Kirara's explanation.
"For all you know your maid could be the demon that bids her time before she eats little Rin's innards. I know you don't want that to happen since it would look bad on your part as her protector. One of the well known inu-youkai that could not even save one little human girl's life from a demon."
"The thing that irritates about these special kinds of ayakashis, is its ability to mask their scent or I wouldn't be here with such a wonderful meal nor I would I have met Rin." Kirara responds as she wipes her plate.
She rises from her seated position, glances at Rin, and remarks, "Thank you Rin-chan for the invite to have dinner with you…I greatly appreciate it and I am within your debt for your hospitality and genuine friendship. I hope we run across each other again sometime."
Rin did not want her to leave yet since she got a kick out of the argument between Lord Sesshomaru and Kirara. This was the first time that she had ever seen Lord Sesshomaru being so vocal about one particular subject matter with a person.
Sesshomaru critically watches as Rin slowly stands to her feet and closely trails behind Kirara when he suddenly catches wind of an unknown scent, 'Is this what that woman was talking about?'
"My lord, where are you going?" Jaken inquires as he breaks away from his meal but just like earlier that afternoon.
Kirara honestly did not want to separate herself from the enjoyable conversation she was having with Rin plus the downright cut throat chat with Sesshomaru. Yet the scent of the youkai she had been hunting sprung up absolutely too close to her current location, Lord Sesshomaru's backyard.
"Come out to play…" she muttered to herself while she rested her hand on the ground's surface until a link was established.
"You sure do like to hide from me." Kirara says to no one in particular before she clenches one of her fist and punches the ground a few inches away from the koi pond.
Kirara spins around to behold a creature with a horn that protrudes from the forehead region, it was hunch over with its claws brandish at her on both its hands and feet, spikes were present along the route of what appears to be its spine, its eyes remind her of Sesshomaru's color except this demon's eyes were a dull gold. It had a spiked tail that seems to swing on its free accord.
The thing comfortably nestles on the wall's edge that surrounds the back portion of Sesshomaru's mansion, which was something Kirara was silently thankful for, while the sound of pops from its neck captures her attention.
"It's been a while since your organization has sent me such a beautiful woman." "I think I shall them for such a ravishing meal." The thing joyful proclaims as its tongue slithers out of its mouth and licks what appears to be its mouth.
"I will do my best to please you then. The only thing is you are not my type. I don't go for the youkais who prey on people just to survive, eat your own damn race, so that that will be less of you we have to deal with." Kirara suggests while she looks up to faces the demon as she maintain it within her sights.
The demon leans forward before it responds back to what Kirara says, "Well lady demon hunter, what are you going to do about it then, cry?"
Kirara suddenly appears directly right next to the demon before she quickly executes roundhouse kick to the back of its head, which forces it to fall toward the backyard ground and ultimately provide her with an equal footing with the creature.
She jumps down toward the creature when the demon rolls off to its right as a crater dents the surface from the impact if her fists, the thing raises one of its hand and fires what looks to be finger bullets.
Kirara easily cut those down before she swiftly advance forward with her assault on the thing only to have it block her attacks with its free hand, 'This demon is a fast tone! I'll have to end this quick.'
She caught its claw as it tried to aim for her stomach and used its momentum against it in order to deliver another blow to its head. She still maintain her tight grip around its wrist as it stumbles before she twists its arm off of his body.
The demon screams a curling howl as it reaches for a limb that was no longer there, "You bitch!" the thing shouts as Kirara burns its arm within her right hand before it disintegrates to dust.
It rose to its feet and made a dash towards her before it disappear behind her with its other claw directed at her head, "Your too, slow!" Kirara rotates and with a quick draw of her blade cuts the other arm off.
"It's a pity that I cut both of your arms off. So what can you do now? What should be the next limb I cut to shreds?" Kirara asks as the arm transforms in to dust like the other one had from earlier.
The demon props itself up with its tail until it was completely flat on its feet and scream, "You bitch! You really think that by cutting of my arms will help you! After all of the humans that I consumed, gave me an extra set just in case someone like you take them off."
As both of its arms regenerates, it briefly stretches them out just to get them in order for them to work.
"It won't matter…because I will simply cut those off and your legs too." Kirara threatens as the blood of the demon in front of her drips off of her blade and on to the group.
She watches as the demon sprints toward her when she hears the sound of a little girl's voice catches both of their attention "Lady Kirara, where did you go?"
Kirara sees that the demon veers its course and with its claws further out ready to claim Rin's body and her organs. She feels her feet move on its own as she uses her fire power as a boost to get in front of the creature.
All that was heard was a little girl's scream as she watched her friend was pierced with claws from the creature.
