[Starlight]
Korihime smiled softly as she looked at the sleeping girl.
Even though she had half-expected the pup to be afraid of them when Sesshomaru had allowed her into the pack, she wasn't afraid at all, and she was the happiest child she'd seen in a long time… She was strange but she seemed to fit in pretty well with a pack of demons, ironically.
And even if she wasn't hers by blood, she would protect Rin because she had been entrusted to her.
The winds howled around their odd pack's camp then, making Getsu hop up from having been lying in the grass by her sister and snatch her sword from its place by her side, as the trio caught the familiar scent of a wind demon.
Landing in a crouch, Kagura looked up only to meet the sharp tip of a sword and her eyes held onto the cold silver gaze of the older she-wolf. "Aren't you a bit cagey?" She wondered blandly as she straightened and took a step back from the bared heirloom.
Getsu smiled ruefully, "Aren't you lost? Or is it that you're barking up the wrong tree? I mean, looking like a dog and all…"
"Why you…" Kagura growled out, regarding the sword again before she huffed and looked past the she-wolf, "Sesshomaru, call off your broad, would you?" She asked and pretended said female didn't growl.
"Getsu brings up a good question, actually… Why are you here, Kagura?" Sesshomaru agreed as he stood at her side, earning a glance from her.
Kagura huffed as she extended her right hand out and revealed two shards of the Shikon Jewel that glinted starlight. "Surely you know what these are… I'll give these to you if you kill Naraku for me. Sever my tie to him and free me, Sesshomaru." She requested as red met gold.
A light 'smack' sounded as Getsu knocked her extended hand down to snatch the shards from falling, surprising the sorceress.
"H-hey!" She made to lunge at her when being met with the sword again, and she glared at the she-wolf. "Give those back to me, now!"
She cocked a brow as she slightly lowered the katana, "So you can do what, exactly, keep hiding them from Naraku? I don't know you very well, Kagura, but I sense that you actually hate that pest. Not that I blame you, of course, but at the very least keep my pack out of your affairs."
Kagura bristled slightly before scowling from her to her male counterpart, "Well, Sesshomaru, are you going to let her dictate what goes on in your little pack?" She asked.
Sesshomaru looked briefly at said female and answered, "She is my fiancé, so I respect what she has to say as it speaks for myself along with our pack. I have no interest in the Shikon Jewel, nor do I intend on or feel obligated to help you. If you can't do it on your own, then don't do it at all."
"And you call yourself a man…!" Kagura scoffed angrily, plucking a feather from the bun in her hair and taking to the skies atop another large feather, "Pathetic fool!" She then left them with the winds howling softly in her wake.
Getsu sheathed her sword and huffed, "She's the fool, if you ask me. Asking you to do a task that she doesn't have the stones for…" She looked down at the shards in her palm and wrinkled her nose. "Pathetic."
"Your protection of me is rather becoming, Getsu," Sesshomaru caught her glance and only arched a brow.
"W-well that's only because you're obviously important around here, and besides, she's about as deluded as her master if she wanted to use you as a shield…" Seeing the amusement in his gold eyes, the she-wolf huffed and turned away to tuck the shards into her collar, perking up when he decided to take off and she exhaled to then follow him.
"E-eh, but Milord, what about dinner?" Jaken asked as the other two females followed the dog demon's leave, scrambling to grab Ah-Un before he trailed after them.
"Hunting something won't be too much trouble…" Korihime declared before her ears twitched and she stopped as they were reaching the near treeline, sniffing the air as she recognized a familiar scent. What's he doing here…? "Onee-chan, I'll be back." She looked at her sister.
"You're not honestly going…" Sesshomaru began.
Getsu nodded, "Go on, we'll manage. Just be careful!" She waved as the younger she-wolf loped away to where they both smelled the same scent.
Rin looked at the older she-wolf, "Where's Kori-onee going?"
"She went to look for something, she'll be back soon though!" Getsu replied as she ruffled her hair, looking forward, "I'm sure we can find something good for dinner, too." She ignored the scowl from the dog demon at her side.
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The wolves with them whined in sympathy for their alpha before a growl rippled amongst them, and the pack turned to greet the intruder.
"What's gotten into them?" Sango wondered aloud.
Korihime skidded to a halt before the odd party, "I thought I smelled wolf blood." She looked past the few humans to the trio of fellow wolf demons even though her gaze settled on the clan head.
"Wow, you could smell it from a long ways then, Kori-chan!" Shippo declared as the she-wolf ruffled his hair affectionately.
Koga bristled slightly and gave a 'humph' as he asked, "What're you doing around here, pedigree?"
"I was gonna ask if you needed your ass handed to you again, but seems someone already did my job. I can take over, Kagome." Korihime shrugged as she came forward.
"Hang on, you're the one who beat up the scrawny wolf boy?" InuYasha cut in with surprise in his voice, and he earned a glance from the she-wolf before she gave him a second look; he felt his ears burn as he bristled slightly being under her stare and asked, "What?"
Looking from his mane of ebony hair instead of silvery white and his big brown eyes instead of gold, Korihime regarded him with a folding of her arms. "Well I'll be damned. I only heard once or twice about half-breeds having a weak point in the phases of the moon, but I didn't know if it was absolutely true. You look different… Not a strange kind, though, more like an attractive sort." She chuckled when his cheeks colored and he looked elsewhere with a huff.
"Why did I figure you'd be interested in that mutt?" Koga made a disgusted noise, wincing when the she-wolf whacked the back of his head with a hand. "Hey, I thought ya were supposed to be healing me! 'Course I was perfectly fine with Kagome patching me up…"
Korihime conked him with her bow this time and lamented, "Now I'm getting sick. You're hopeless, chasing after a poor priestess… Stay still." She then began healing him. "So dare I ask who beat the crap out of you?"
"Tch, it was one of Naraku's incarnations, Kagura… She slew my whole clan and has been after my shards." Koga answered, glancing at her when feeling the slightest spike in her yoki. "What is it?"
"I didn't know she did that… I'm sorry, Koga. She's been sniffing around Sesshomaru lately, of course it's not like she'll get far with Getsu." Korihime relaxed slightly as she met his blue eyes and shrugged.
"I guess she and Sesshomaru made up?" Kagome wondered as she looked at the she-wolf and noted she was doing better at patching the other wolf demon up.
Korihime smiled wryly, "They bicker sometimes, but for the most part yes." She didn't mention how Kagura had tried to bribe Sesshomaru with jewel shards and decided not to.
Getsu didn't have a need for them so she sincerely doubted the shards were in any danger of being used.
It would be safer to give the shards to Kagome when Koga wasn't around, too.
FYI the next two chaps are going to be mostly fight sequences, so bear with me if they seem not so On Point, i haven't written fight scenes in weeks.. just saying. elsewise, later! :)