Neko smelled the daiyoukai's scent and hit the ground curling her body around Eiji protectively. She covered her son's ears as screams and gunshots filled the air then…it was quiet. Eiji whimpered and shook under his mother not understanding what was happening.

"Stand nekoyasha," the daiyoukai ordered Neko.

Neko flicked her tail and ears to show she heard him and just needed a moment. She got up and faced the daiyoukai but kept her head down when she recognized the scent of a royal daiyoukai. She whispered to her son as she curled her tail around the side of her leg to show she was no threat to the daiyoukai, "Don't look him in the eyes unless he says so."

The tall daiyoukai just gazed at her and her son with a cold mask.

The nekoyasha understood the silence and answered, "I'm Neko-youkai, the second son of Munaku of the Red Flower Clan but unfortunately because of the species I am I'm now I'm the second daughter."

There was another moment of silence and Eiji didn't understand how his mother know what the daiyoukai was saying when he didn't ask anything.

"We're in your dept for coming to our aid but…I know you will not help two commoners such as ourselves-"

"Silence yasha," Neko cringed back at his voice but made no other movement as the daiyoukai turned to the hole in the wall he created, "If you wish to repay your dept you better follow."

"Yes milord," Neko bowed and quickly followed him.

* * *

Haruo stood outside his house as he watched military men search through his house. He stood at attention as a general tried to get information from him about his family but his answer was only, "Idane Iemochi Haruo number 19-89-06-01-10." (a/n: that number stands for what decade he was born in, year, month, day, and the rank he was in his ninja class. I just came up with that just now.)

"Tell me, are there any others like your wife?!" the general demanded angrily.

"Idane Iemochi Haruo number 19-89-06-01-10," Haruo repeated hiding his emotions behind a mask.

"General!" a soldier called as he ran to him. "We can't find anything that has anything about the others that might be out there."

The general turned to Haruo and said, "If you don't tell us about the then we'll have to experiment on your son and wife."

Haruo suddenly added another name to the phrase he was repeating, "Takashi Idane Iemochi Haruo number 19-89-06-01-10."

"What's that suppose to mean?"

"It means that I cannot give you what you want even for the sake of my family."

"Finally we're getting somewhere. Now-"

"Takashi Idane Iemochi Haruo number 19-89-06-01-10," he repeated again before he jumped away as beams of light hit the soldiers. Getting up he looked up at the King Yama's Spirit Detectives coming out of the surrounding forest. "Don't brother with me. They were already here when I got here and I'm now going to find my family whether you like it or not."

"We have better things to do than concern ourselves with your family," one of the members told him.

"It's not wise to anger a Takashi, he is allowed to attack you if he feels you are threatening him. It is part of the Takashi and Spirit World Treaty," their leader told them. "And by the way he's flaring his aura it means he does."

Haruo stared angrily at them as his aura heated the air around him making his clothes float around him but instead of attacking he turned and left.

* * *

Neko followed closely behind the daiyoukai and held Eiji close that was nervous about the whole thing as they walked through a forest in Makai. She finally asked, "Milord, what may I call you?"

The daiyoukai didn't answer right away but answered, "Sesshomaru."

"Yes Lord Sesshomaru."

"Where's your mate?"

"He wasn't at our home at the time of our capture but he will come for us until then I'll have to listen to your orders," as she thought, 'As much as I hate this.'

Eiji began to whimper wanting his mother's attention on him and not the daiyoukai. And it worked Neko turned her attention to him trying to calm him down. Sesshomaru suddenly turned to the two nekoyoukai when he sensed the female's youki flare. A pure white katana and a pure black wakizashi appeared on her left hip as she shifted her son to her other arm.

"I have to protect myself too," was all she said.


daiyoukai: the type of dog demon Sesshomaru is.

nekoyasha or nekoyoukai: cat demon.

Yasha means female demon and Youkai means male demon.

I need help for the next chapter so please if you would send me your ideas to help.