The day had come faster than any od them could have for seen. Touran would be arriving to the Western fortress soon in order to meet him. The ironic thing Sesshomaru

thought is I have already meet her usually at a point of a sword. He wondered how he was going to possibly get used to the idea of being her mate. How can we possibly be

able to get past the fact that we tried to kill eachother numerous times. How is this even going to be possible? I wonder what our kids will be like? What would we even call them?

Dats? Cogs? Can we even have offspring? I have never even heard of a neko and inu mating before. I do not even think it has ever been done before. What will I do?

I feel that No matter what She will not forgive me for being the one to destroy her father with my tensiega. I hope she can look past our age old species rivalry to know me just as

Sesshomaru, and I her as only Touran. I hope and pray that she will accept me for me.

Sesshomaru was deep in thought as he waited outside his fortress gate waiting for

the entourage of the panthers which would be carrying his intended mate to him. Beside him was his main general Akira set out in full battle regalia just as Sesshomaru

was as was the custom. Soon the entourage of the Panther clan could be seen entering the valley. It was decided that the whole ruling house of the panthers would join

that of the inu to show all of the youkai the new solidarity of their rulers. It was supposed to symbolize the new regime. The Western palsce was chosen because of it's

imposing stature and high walls in the middle of the valley. However, the slightly smaller northern fortress of the panther hidden in the mountains was planned to be the

emergency seat of the youkai government if there was an invasion of youkai lands by the ever increasing human population. Sesshomaru inwardly started having dark

thoughts about that possibility. NO! I will NEVER BOW to those beasts! They may one day take my fortress but they will never find Touran's. Those dumb beasts do not even

know it exists or that youkai live that far north. Weak humans can't take the cold.

Although Sesshomaru would have that opinion sinse Youkai as long as they lived radiated heat. Even Touran who could withstand cold greater than most Youkai could

generate a great amount of body heat naturally. This is why Youkai never got sick or seldom ever froze to death. It was one of the many advantages that Youkai had over

humans. Youkai did not age after a certain point in their lives, they did not get sick, they healed incredibly well and fast. They were beings with superior strength, speed

and senses. The weakness of Youkai was but one thing. A female no matter how old only went into heat once every 10 years. This obviously was much slower than their

human counterparts which could breed much faster. The unfortunate thing was that even though this was the common natural thing, it was balanced that when ever the

sides went to war even with mikos and priests and larger numbers the youkai usually drove the humans back because of indidual prowess and strength. For example if

one youkai soldier faced ten human soldiers odds are that the human soldiers would be dead and the youkai soldier alive and still fighting. Add the extra experience to

hundreds and a few with a thousand years experience of fighting and warfare it balanced out the sides well. There was but one thing though to also spur on this merger

of youkai kingdoms faster than anything. This was the arrival of the black powder. The fear amongst his and Touran's subjects was that they no longer heard as much

from the other ageless peoples of the world such as the elves and Tautha Dedananan or fairies ( as their humans called them ). This only continued to add to the fear of

the youkai as enormous numbers of youkai clans fled the mainland due to Human aggression. The fears are that the rest of the ageless peoples were forced into hiding a

fate that Sesshomaru and Touran both wanted toavoid if possible at all. Before the the negotiations Sesshomaru sent a delegations to both the known homelands of the

elves and Denanans to see if they were still alive and if so how they kept their humans at bay.

Finally Touran and her entourage of soldiers and servants stopped in front of Sesshomaru and his men in front of the gate. Touran could tell the look of suprise in

Sesshomaru's general at the sight of her. Ha! That old Dog Akira is surprised at seeing me in my fool battle regalia instead a flowery kimono. I am fighter and a ruler in

everything I do. He would be wise to learn this...

"My lady Touran it is pleasing to see my intended along with her household here to become one with mine." The killing

perfection said smoothly yet coldly addressing her and her household and minions. " My lord it is I who am pleased to unite the two greatest bloodlines in all of the History

of Nippon. May our rule be just an long with you and I at eachothers side I am honored to share a title and hearth and home with you." said Touran as she bowed to

Sesshomaru. " This Sesshomaru acknowledges the utmost worthiness and pwerful bloodline of the panther clan. May the united rule of our two great clans shed a new

light upon the Youkai people. Sesshomaru then bowed to Touran and walked up to her and offered her his hand. The couple turned to walk into the gate into the fortress

when a ball light was seen in the sky. Sesshomaru's eyes widened for a second then looked towards Akira. "Explain." Sesshomaru coldly commanded to his general. Akira

gave a long irritated sigh. " Your mother did say something about seeing this cat who would take her old place for herself." " "What you tell me KNOW!." Snarled

Sesshomaru. Before he or Touran could say anthing else the ball of light spread to form a white inuyoukai dressed in royal silks radiating power and elegance. Inu Kimi

stared challengingly at the panther who would claim her son. " I wonder cat do you have what it takes to claim my son? To give him the powerful heir he deserves? Will

you be able to sate the great lust of an Inu Daiyoukai?" "MOTHER!" exclaimed a horrified and embarrassed Inu lord that his mother would even dare ask a question like

that. " Oh hush my son. It is my right as the mother of the lord to test his intended mate you know it is my right as well as duty to do so." Inu Kimi chided her son. " Well

dog I must say I see where my future mate gets his attitude from." Touran finished boldly, then continued to walk up towards the Inu female who would become her

mother. " SO mother what is it you would have of me to prove that I am capable or worthy of carrying your sons oh how do you dogs put it pup or in my peoples words

kitten?" Touran asked the last question with such sickeningly sweet syrup that Seshomaru, Akira and Touran's brother Shunran all tensed waiting for a what do the

humans call it a cat fight? Of course all Touran's sisters did is smirk at her feeling so proud of their sister at that moment. Then all of a sudden Inu Kimi's eyes became red

and her youki statted to grow moments later a huge elegant white dog appeared on the field near the fortress. Touran eyed the dog with great interest. " Inu Kimi I see

very well, you do not believe me to be a daiyoukai of your family's stature allow me to prove otherwise." Stated Touran confidently as she then transfored into a giant Blue

Panther equaling Inu Kimi's size. The Great White Dog and Great Blue Panther circled each other stopped then waited. At this time everyone was tense thinking there was

going to be a battle. Sesshomaru was beside himself I might very well lose a mother or an intended today maybe even both! Damn females and petty dominance it is almost

like I am a scrap of meat to be fought over by wild mortal dogs!

Sesshomaru thought then his eyes widened at the most peculiar sight. The inu stepped forward towards the

panther and started to sniff the panther and the panther returned in kind. Then after a couple minutes of getting eachothers scent tne Inu and the panther started rub

each other faces together and purr or soothing growl at the other one. Several minutes of this followed and there was a great blast of youkai from both females . Then

another sight was there for the bewildered groups to behold. Both females Touran and Inukimi were hugging each other still soothing growling or purring into each others

ears. Then golden eyes peered into Icy blue and said to Touran, "I accept you into our clan my daughter." Touran started to have some tears in her eyes as she said. " I

will do my utmost to honor you mother." Touran waved for her sisters to come forward. Karan and Shuran hesitantly did. Inu Kimi gave them an open fanged filled smile

and exclaimed." " I know your mother is passed away but I am a selfish youkai and have always wanted daughters. I have accepted Touran as mine and in turn have

accepted you two as my daughters as well." Upon hearing this Karan and Shuran burst into tears and threw themselves into Inu Kimi's embrace. Then when the females

were done Shunran had a really weird feeling he looked around and saw Akira and Sesshomaru smirk at him. Shunran asked Sesshomaru, " Why are you two smirking at

me like that?" To which Sesshomaru replied, " Because know I have a brother in which mother can spend time tormenting instead of always me." Shunran turned and and

his eyes widened seeing Inu Kimi right in front of him! " I HAVE ANOTHER SON!" Before Shunran could even think he was enveloped into a bone crushing hug by the female

Inu. Shunran returned the embrace as he was happy that their families seemed to be coming together by the most unlikely of catalysts... In the corner of his eyes he could

see Sesshomaru and his general Akira having a laugh at his expense. He didn't care he had a mother again and that was all that mattered to him at the moment. Humans,

racist priests and mikos be damned, he was enjoying this moment.