Princess of the Wolves
Last Time
"Lady Kaede do you know any more of the legend? I only know part." Yamainu asked.
Kaede nodded, "Yes, it is said not only would she help all of wolf kind but also when she is…." Before she could continue Kagome suddenly stood up and looked out the door.
"Jewel Shards, I sense a large portion." She spoke.
The jewel hunters knew what this meant; Yamainu looked to her friends as they all whispered the same name.
"Naraku"
Now
"Wait you mean that evil hanyou you all are hunting down?" Yamainu asked.
"The very same, it seems he is once again coming for Kagome's portion of the jewel and more than likely Kouga's as well." Miroku spoke.
Ayame faced her friend, "What will you do Yama-chan? This will be your first encounter with Naraku."
"Hold you, you mean you have never had any kind of encounters dealing with him?" Kagome asked while reaching for her bow and arrows.
Yamainu shook her head, "Never, as I said my pack try to not be seen or do anything to attract attention to ourselves. We can handle ourselves but still aren't able to handle such demons with power. That's sending a pup with only a dagger against a pack of demons."
"Bah then stay here, you won't be able to help anyways." Inuyasha stated and led his group out of the hut and sprinted to the forest in hopes of blocking their path to the village.
Yamainu growled at what he said, 'ME HELPLESS! Why that no good obnoxious…' she thought continuing to call Inuyasha every name, word and some indecency she could think of.
At this time only Ayame, her pack and herself was left in the hut. Kaede had gone to get all the villagers prepared incase of an attack.
"What's the plan sis?" Dikato asked.
Yamainu bit her lower lip in thought. 'I wish to help my friends but I must think of my tribe. Should we indeed hold him back, he will want revenge and out of all of us my tribe is the must vulnerable.'
Ayame watched her friend fighting with her emotions, "Yama-chan do what you think is right."
"That's the problem, helping is right but protecting my tribe is also right."
Yuri looked to her sister with sympathy; it is decisions like this that makes being a leader a hard job. "We shall fight."
Yamainu looked to her sister, "But Yuri…"
"It is better to face this now than later. He will eventually come after us and will be much more dangerous if he gets a hold of more jewel shards." Yuri explained.
Yamainu sighed and thought over what her sister said. Suddenly they heard a scream that sounded a lot like Kagome. Instinct took over to protect her pack and Yamainu sprinted out of the hut and towards the forest, her pack and Ayame not far behind.
They heard sounds of battle and Yamainu signaled for them to slow down. They made their way cautiously and soon came upon the scene of Kagome and Miroku on the ground knocked out with Sango, Kirara and Shippo protecting them while Inuyasha faced of with a demoness with a fan and from what Yamainu can sense a hanyou wearing baboon fur.
"Ayame inform" Was her soft command.
Ayame seeing her friend in battle mode nodded, "The demoness is Kagura; she is the wind witch who slaughtered a northern tribe and a good portion of Kouga's tribe."
Yamainu stiffen at that, sure she heard of the incident but still hard to get over the shock that over 50 wolves got killed by the demoness before her.
"The hanyou is Naraku, he claimed no mans land, from what some sources say; for his own and holds a good portion of the Shikon no Tama. His maisma is deadly; even biting him can cost you dearly." Ayame continued.
Yamainu growled softly trying to come up with a plan. She knew it would be dangerous for her wolves; since biting is part of how they fought.
She looked on and noticed Inuyasha seem to be able to wound Naraku, but the wind witch prevents him from doing anything else besides defending. With a plan Yamainu nodded.
"We attack Kagura and give Inuyasha an opening to attack Naraku. So we must destroy that fan of hers." Yamainu informed.
She signaled her wolves to surround the area and get in position.
Meanwhile Inuyasha was losing his temper (well more than normal anyways). He dodged another of Naraku's tentacles and was about to charge him but suddenly he got knocked away by a force of wind.
"Damn you Kagura, you bitch! This is between me and Naraku!" Inuyasha yelled.
Yamainu was just about to give the signal when a tornado came blasting its way to Kagura.
"That's right wind witch, your fight is with me!" Kouga's voice called out from the tornado and suddenly his form came from it and sent a kick her way but she managed to dodge it the last moment.
"What do we do now Yamainu-chan?" Ayame asked.
"We split into three groups, Dikato you take a group to Sango and protect, Ayame you take another and help Kouga, I will take Yuri and we will help Inuyasha." She instructed.
Soon they split into the designated teams. Dikato and his fellow wolves formed a circle around the wounded miko and monk, snapping, clawing and attacking anything that comes close to them. This gave Sango more space to attack.
Ayame and the rest of the wolves attempted to help Kouga and his comrades. The wolves attack whenever there was an opening to snatch Kagura's fan. Kouga realize the plan and tried to create more openings.
With Kagura busy with so many wolves she couldn't help Naraku. Inuyasha grinned and began his attack anew. Yamainu smiled then watched as Naraku seemed to pay full attention to Inuyasha. Yamainu turned to her sister and nodded her head.
Naraku sneered as he attempted to block another blow from the half demon before him. 'Where have those wolves come from?' he thought, then he noticed the female wolf demoness, 'So the northern mountain wolves were here, they will pay dearly for this.' He continued to think and lashed out at Inuyasha more fiercely.
He was so preoccupied he didn't detect two auras' behind him and so got slashed at from behind. He cried out in pain and looked to his right to see another wolf but to his left he saw what looks to be a wolf hanyou snarling at him.
"What do we have here?" he asked as he watched her.
The hair on her neck back stood on end as Naraku looked her way, "Leave this place Naraku or you shall die this day." She spoke flexing her claws.
"Wench mind your own business, this is my fight!" Inuyasha called out and then shouted "WIND SCAR!"
Yamainu eyes widen and called out, "Yuri, look out!" then she manage to leap away. She looked everywhere for her sister, as the dust cloud disperse Naraku was no where to be seen and Kagura manage to knock Kouga away and make her escape.
"Yamainu where is Yuri?" Ayame asked her friend as she landed beside her.
"I don't know…" she continued to look and soon picked up scent of blood and ran in the direction and soon came across her sister wounded. Yamainu knelt beside her and examined her wounds.
Back in the clearing Kagome and Miroku finally came too and asked what happened and Ayame filled them in. Once they heard Inuyasha releasing his wind scar at Naraku with both wolves close by Kagome got worried.
"Inuyasha how could you?" Sango asked.
"Bah, they were in the way. I told her it was my fight." He replied
Minutes later Yamainu came into the clearing carrying her wounded sister and whimpers softly.
Kouga looked and gasped before going to her, "How is she?"
"She is alive but wounded badly; oh Kouga why did it have to be her?" She whimpered.
Kouga placed an arm around the whimpering wolf princess and nuzzled her, "She is strong Yamainu, and she will survive."
"Let's get to the village quickly and see to her wounds." Kagome said.
With that they made their way back to the village. Dikato stood by Yamainu worried about his sisters. Both he and Yamainu snarled anytime Inuyasha was close and in return Inuyasha just growled right back.
The group had finally made it back to the village and explained everything to Kaede. She ushered everyone back into her hut so wounds could be attended to.
Yamainu lay her sister down and the girls began to help bandage her up. While that was going on tension in the hut was high between the wolves and Inuyasha.
Kouga growled at the hanyou for making his friend sad and for hurting her sister.
Hakkaku and Ginta as well growled and glared but had to try and prevent Yamainu's wolves from attacking him, especially Dikato who's eye seem to flicker to red as he snarled.
All Inuyasha did was ignore them but then the whimpering of Yamainu began to eat away at his conscience. His ears lay back and shoulders slumped in shame for what he did. This princess, who extended a hand of friendship and asked to join her pack as well as know about the hardships of trying to fit in demon society and this is how he treats her; by nearly killing her family. 'Smart move you idiot.' He thought to himself.
Soon they finished attending to Yuri and Yamainu turned to Kaede.
"Lady Kaede what are your thoughts on my sister's condition?" the wolf princess asked.
Kaede settled down and began to prepare some tea, "Her wounds are serious and can't be moved for some weeks. She was lucky to have avoided most of the attack."
Yamainu stroked her sister's fur gently, "I am sorry Yuri."
"Nothing to be sorry for," Yuri weakly replied.
"No talking. You need your strength to heal." Dikato said.
Yamainu stroked her sister's fur then stood up, "Dikato stay and watch over Yuri I will be back shortly." With that she left the hut and 3 wolves followed silently after her as if under a quiet command to follow.
Yamainu ran to the forest and soon came across a large tree she soon recognizes as the God Tree that Inuyasha was pinned to. She sat down and her wolves settle around her, nuzzling her, comforting their princess and friend. She strokes their fur and look to the sky in thought. Suddenly the hair on the back of her neck stood up and a shiver ran down her back, she smiled softly and knew only one person can get this kind of reaction from her, she looked towards the forest to see two golden eyes.
"You may come out Lord Sesshomaru."
And indeed it was the Lord of the Western lands; he approached calmly and watched her.
"I assume you are here to escort me to your castle my Lord." Yamainu asked.
Sesshomaru nodded but noticed something about the young princess, "Your scent is full of pain but yet I see no wounds."
"I am sorry my Lord, we were under attack by the foul demon name Naraku, my sister was heavily wounded in the battle; just barely coming out of it alive." Yamainu replied softly.
"Did the Northern Lord not teach you proper battle tactics?"
"Yes, but these wounds were not from Naraku but your half brother. Most of his pack is part of mine so I assisted in battle, everything was going fine were team work was concerned but…" Yamainu stopped her ears drooped slightly as she remembered the battle.
Sesshomaru sensing her mood turned to one of her wolves, "Report what you witnessed in the battle."
One of the wolves sat up and bowed his head, "My Lord, when we entered battle we manage to surprise Naraku and the wind witch, from what I could have seen he must have assumed we were Lady Ayame's wolves since she was there with young Lord Kouga as well."
Sesshomaru listened then nodded; it was true the Solarian wolves have strong resemblance to the North Wolf Tribe.
"When Naraku had his full attention to Inuyasha, Princess Yamainu and Yuri attacked Naraku catching him in a surprise attack wounding him slightly. The plan was to attack Naraku to give Inuyasha an opening to attack." The wolf continued.
Once again Sesshomaru had to agree, the Solarian were a strong pack but against such enemies they were not strong enough so it would only be wise to make opportunities for the strongest to attack. "Yes that should have been a fair plan to at least push him back."
"It should have been had Inuyasha not lost his temper and composure. He did not want their help and attack blindly while both sisters were still in close range. He used his strongest attacks, I assumed, the princess manage to escape but Yuri just barely got killed." The wolf finished.
Sesshomaru slightly narrowed his eyes and looked to the young princess, and made a mental sigh at his half brothers incompetence. 'He will kill is allies if he doesn't think through his actions.' He thought.
"Lady Kaede said that Yuri can not be moved for a few weeks because of her injures." Yamainu said softly.
"Then she will not, I will return for you when she is able. Till then continue to train and prepare yourselves." Sesshomaru said before turning and leaving into the night.
Yamainu watched as his form disappeared and smiled softly, "He may be cold but he is compassionate and fair."
"That he is princess." Another of the wolves said.
"Let us return princess, so we can tell the others of our plans." Another said.
Yamainu nodded and then got up and they made their way back to the village.
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Silverpaw: I am sooo sorry I kept you all waiting. I was busy with other business in my life. I also apologise for a short chapter. I hope to get a new chapter up sooner. Just be patient with me, thanks!