Chapter 10!
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Sosuke and Eiji stood on top of a cliff overlooking the western territory. They just left the estate after they drop off the tearful human child, Mitsu. She was so heartbroken to find out that her adopted mother was slain in battle. Sosuke told her to be hopeful since Lord Sesshomaru and Kaishi went to revive her from death, but the young human still had unshed tears in her brown almond eyes. He also told Inuyasha and his mate of the situation with Lady Kaya and why they were retrieving little Mitsu from their care. The hanyou was not pleased as he saw it that Lord Sesshomaru didn't trust him in protecting the human child, but they both knew that when it came to Lady Kaya's love to the child. He wanted to send her peace in the afterlife that her adopted human child was in the best care within the western territory protection.
Eiji got treated for his wounds that took two days for him to completely heal and begin his search along with Sosuke for Aiko and Yoshiro. Lord Sesshomaru had informed them both that Lady Kaya's body was with his mother and Kaishi was accompanying him on his own search for his heirs. Both the tiger and chameleon demon didn't see it was a good idea to have Kaishi out in the enemy's view, but they didn't express their concern as Lord Sesshomaru was very vulnerable in his state of mind.
"Should we check Mt. Fuji to see if he rebuilds his camp there?" Eiji spoke up his idea which Sosuke glance towards the volcano in the far distance.
"No, I had Tetsu and Tsuki already check around the volcano and they found no traces of a new camp. That hawk isn't as dumb as we take him for, but I have a hunch on another location he might be stationed at. Come, we go towards the southern coast." Sosuke ordered as he approaches the edge of the cliff before dropping down the 10-foot drop.
Eiji watched his best companion and nodded as he knew what Sosuke was getting at. The southern coast held an island with immense demonic aura. Shi no shima was not an island that even great powerful demons venture to willingly, but it was perfect to hide within to escape your enemy's senses. He sighed as he didn't want to go as he didn't feel like dying just yet, but for his loyalty to Lord Sesshomaru and Lady Kaya he would go to see if the pups were there being held captive. He approached the cliff's edge and drop as well to follow his best friend to the southern isle.
Kaishi followed behind his father in silence as he couldn't keep the frown from his face. Three days have passed since his mother's death and his siblings capture. He grips his small fist as they haven't heard nothing of his sibling's whereabouts or from his grandmother about his mother returning from the underworld. He glanced up towards his father and frown more. His father was being very cold and emotionless in his stature that the young heir was experiencing for the first time in his life. He knew his father was devastated from the loss of his mate, but he didn't like seeing his father like this. It wasn't what he grew up seeing from him. Yes, his father was strict with him and Yoshiro, but he would never give them a freezing cold stare when asked a question or the silent treatment. His father would always answer a simple question for him and along with looking at him with a light softness in his eyes. He frowns more as he thought if his mother couldn't return to them would they all had to grow up with this new father of theirs. Would Aiko ever grow up knowing that father actually had a soft spot for all of them? Would Yoshiro remember father soft interaction of teaching them how to be proper Inu heirs?
Kaishi paused in his steps and hung his head in sadness. Did his mother really had that much influence on their father? Poor Aiko would never witness their mother's genuine smile that made them get through the day or her warm hugs that protected them from the sense of doubt of not being great heirs of the western territory. He wipes his face quickly as he tried to rid himself of the tears that suddenly started to fall. He hated feeling this low. He grips his fist tightly as he felt warmth fill his palm. The scent of salt of his tears and metallic of the blood dripping from his palms enter his nose.
Sesshomaru stop as he noticed the scent of his heir's tears and blood in the air. He glanced down coldly towards his eldest trembling figure. He closed his eyes and turns to walk up to Kaishi form. He kneels before his eldest and places his hand on top of his head. The young Inu demon flinches from his touch before looking up to his golden eyes with his glossy tearful ones. Sesshomaru saw the mix of anger and sadness in his eyes. He released a sigh as he wonders what got him so distraught all of sudden.
"What bothers you, Kaishi?" he asked coldly as he didn't notice his difference with his person towards his heir.
Kaishi tense up from his tone and glance away from his father stare, "Forgive me, father. My mind is still trouble from all that has happened in the past three days."
Sesshomaru noticed his small form tense from his question and heard the small hint of dishonesty in his voice. "Kaishi… give this Sesshomaru your truth." His voice strong as his eyes narrows a bit.
Kaishi hung his head as he should've known nothing goes past his father senses. "You've change, father. I fear it for my sibling's future upbringing if mother can't return to us. When we have Aiko and Yoshiro back in our grasp, I don't want them to mourn the way you and I have for mother's absence. I want Aiko to grow knowing the father that Yoshiro and I know before we lost mother. Mother wouldn't have approved your change towards us if you keep going the way you are, father."
Sesshomaru blinked a couple times as he was taken back from his eldest words. He released his head and stood up. He glanced up towards the night sky in wonder. He could already hear his mate pouting at him to be nicer to the pups as they were they're future. He closed his eyes as he released a sigh. Probably he has let himself revert back to his old self as he lost his mate from his grasp, but he now needed to remind himself he had three pups relying on him for protection. Yoshiro and Kaishi never seen this side of him since Kaya was the cause of melting the ice in his heart, but with her gone the ice was slowly creeping back around his heart. He released another sigh as he glanced back down to his eldest who watched him in silence. He can see Kaya's influence hugely in his gold orbs and knew it could be her speaking through him to tell him to stay focus on being the father to his heirs that they knew best.
"Forgive me, Kaishi. We will rest tonight. Prepare a fire while I make contact with the twins." Sesshomaru said softly to his eldest who nodded with a slight relief in his form before doing what he was told.
Sesshomaru step away from the spot where Kaishi prepare the small fire and grip his fist. His mother better brings his mate back. Raising their pups would be tough on his behalf as he knew himself too well that he knew he would revert back to the cold lord he was many years ago before Kaya came into his life. He closed his eyes as he pinched the bridge of his nose when he stops in a small clearing not too far from where Kaishi was.
"Tetsu… Tsuki… Report." He ordered as he opens his eyes. He glanced down as he saw the two serpent demons kneel before him in a bow. "Any news from Sosuke and Eiji or anyone locating my capture pups?"
Tetsu and Tsuki looked up towards him and frown a bit. Tetsu spoke up first, "Sosuke and Eiji are heading to the southern isle. Sosuke believe they may be station on Shi no shima. Lord Daisuke and Master Naoki have their troops searching the whole northern territory and Northern isles for any signs of heir Yoshiro and Aiko. Hanyou Inuyasha and Inuki along with his human companions are also searching the eastern territory for their presence. We are still waiting on any information to report to you, my lord."
Sesshomaru eyes narrowed out towards the forest as he took in the information. Shi no shima was the last place he wanted his pups to be, but if Sosuke and Eiji senses were telling them to look there for his missing pups then they need to quickly get them off that hellish island. He nodded his head down to the twins. His ear twitched and he released a low growl as he turns and head back to where Kaishi was preparing camp. Tetsu and Tsuki sense it too and followed their lord towards his waiting heir.
Kaishi growled deadly up to the hovering hawks above him with his Jaiseiga in his tight grip. Three hawks circle above him and laughed down towards his position. Kaishi wonder if they return for him or just came to rub everything in their faces. It could be both with them for all he knew. Kaishi was just preparing camp like his father ordered him to do till he heard flapping wings in the distance. When he had turned around and unsheathed Jaiseiga, three hawk demons were above him and circling his form like he was their prey for the day. He didn't dare call for his father aid since these three wouldn't be trouble for him to deal with plus he wanted to avenge his mother death anyway possible. Even if they weren't Jiro, who had killed his mother, but they were his associates and species. He glared his gold eyes up to the hawk demons and noticed one took the bold step to swoop down and attack him head on. He prepares himself for the attack, but once he was about to swing his sword on the hawk a green whip came from behind him and slice the hawk in half. It shrieks in pain before falling to the forest floor dead and in two pieces. Kaishi paused in shock then glanced behind him as he saw his father standing with angry gold eyes at the last two remaining hawks in the sky. Did his father kill the hawk that now lay on the forest floor before him?
Sesshomaru moved and stood in front of Kaishi. "Sheath your sword, Kaishi." His voice ordered his son in a cold tone as he didn't take his eyes off the agitated hawks in the sky.
Kaishi nodded as he obeys his father and sheathed his Jaiseiga at his right hip. He stays silent as he watched his father and what he would do next. Tetsu and Tsuki appeared behind him and pulled out their short swords as they prepared for anything that comes towards Kaishi. Kaishi was encircled by them in a protected circle. He felt a bit intimidated by his father presence before him and the twin serpents behind him. He never been put in this position before and as he watched his father's back he just thought he will always be seeing his father back till the day he can prove to him that he can surpass him in strength and stature to either stand at his side like his Uncle Sosuke and Eiji did in battles or in front of him to show he didn't need protection for his own well-being in battle. Kaishi could almost imagine his adult self standing at his father right side ready to protect his territory or love ones from harm. A proud smile form on his lips as he hopes he gets to see that day along with his siblings and mother.
Sesshomaru spotted which hawk he was going to interrogated for information on his pup's whereabouts. The hawks growl down towards them before making a stupid decision on attacking Sesshomaru head on at the same time. Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes as he whips his left wrist and his poison green whip sprout from his claw fingers and cut down the hawk on the right in half just like the first hawk he disposes. It shrieks in pain and drop to the forest ground in two pieces dead. The last remaining hawk shriek in hate as he prepares his talons to strike Sesshomaru, but the daiyoukai turn and flex his poison claws before catching the hawk by his throat and held him in the air. The hawk growl and shriek at lord Sesshomaru as he struggles in hold, but once Sesshomaru sunk his poison claws the hawk went quiet.
"Speak… where are my pups?" Sesshomaru's deadly cold voice made Kaishi flinched a bit. He stayed silent as he watched his father interrogate the hawk.
The hawk just stays quiet as he glared at the daiyoukai. Sesshomaru growled deadly as he grips tighten on the hawk's throat which made him choke out. "Where are my pups, you pathetic bird? Where is Jiro based at?"
The hawk grip Sesshomaru's wrist as he had hard time breathing while he still glared at him. "Master Jiro new base is on an island. Your little runts are in the best of care… for now."
Sesshomaru growled angrily at the hawks insult to his pups. He twists his wrist and snapped the hawk's neck. The hawk went limp in his grip before he flung the dead bird's body to the forest ground. He turned around and step up to the twin serpents who bowed down before their lord.
"You heard what the bird said. Report it to our allies also tell Sosuke and Eiji that I'm heading their way. Tell them they are not to approach Shi no shima till I arrive." Sesshomaru ordered the twins who nodded before disappearing to do what they were told. Sesshomaru turn towards his eldest and eyed him closely.
Kaishi felt his father's eyes upon him, but he couldn't look at him. After seeing his father lose his cool like that was new to him. He was just so used to patrolling the western lands with his father without any threats trying to disturbed their father and son time. He sighed as he looked up to his father and nodded his head. He needed to get over this new side of his father. He now is getting first hand action of how his father used to be. He always knew that it wasn't wise to cross his father and remembering the stories that his mother and Sosuke told him of his father's past ways.
"So, we head towards Shi no shima in the morning, father?" Kaishi asked as he approaches his father side calmly. Sesshomaru watched him and nodded.
"It's the only island that any pathetic demon would house himself to get off the radar, but it's no place for pups." He narrowed his eyes as he can only think on how Aiko and Yoshiro are doing. Aiko's condition worries him the most as she needed to be fed Kaya's milk to stay alive.
Kaishi frown as he walks back to the little camp he had prepared before the hawks appeared. Sesshomaru watched his eldest in silence as Kaishi kneel down and started a small fire. The daiyoukai moved and sat against a tree near the fire where Kaishi stayed kneeling near. The young dog demon still had a frown on his face as his worry on his sibling's well-being along with his mother revival. He closed his eyes and released a soft sigh.
"Father… do you believe mother will return to us?" Kaishi asked with worry in his tone as he looked towards his father.
Sesshomaru closed his eyes as he didn't want to give a false answer to his pup. He opens his golden orbs and looked up to the twilight sky with a deep sigh escaping his lips. Silence fill the small campsite the whole night as the two dog demons kept to themselves the whole night.
A small growl filled the main tent in the slavery camp as Yoshiro glared towards the evil hawk demon that captured him and his sister. Yoshiro was still trap in the small cage that Jiro had placed him in when they arrived. Aiko was sleeping on the wolf pelt bed peacefully after having her nightly meal. Jiro held Yue, the tigress demon that was put in care for the young pups, by the hair. Yue hissed in pain as she narrowed her silver color eyes towards Jiro. He had caught her trying to release Yoshiro from his cage, so he could be closed to his sister, but the hawk had walked into the tent and pulled her by her hair.
"What gives you the right to release him from the cage I put him in, Yue? He is in there for a reason, Yue." Jiro yanked on her hair again and place her face closed to his.
"He just wanted to be near his sleeping sister. It's what siblings do when they are in unknown places." Yue spoke out in her defense.
Jiro growled lowly and release her hair to only back hand her hard across her face which the tigress fell to the floor while holding her cheek. Yoshiro growled out towards Jiro again as he wanted to protect his new friend from the stupid hawk. Jiro glared towards the young pup before smirking evilly. He moved his eyes back down to Yue and picked her up by her hair. Yue hissed in pain before she started to struggle against the hawk when she notices him dragging her out of the tent. She knew what he was about to do to her, but what broke her heart more was when she heard the small pup calling out to her with worry in his tone.
Yoshiro stared in horror as he watched his new friend Yue be drag out of the tent by her hair. He didn't understand why she was being treated so badly. She just wanted to give him a little time with his sister, so he could feel reassure she was in good condition. They both agree he would spend a few minutes with Aiko before going back into the cage before someone came in the tent. His blue eyes landed on his sleeping sister and smiled a bit. Yue was keeping her healthy and that made him happy. Yue also made sure he ate properly even when they wouldn't give him food some nights. She would sneak him bread and meat. A frown creases his lips as he looked back towards the tent's entrance. He hopes Yue will return back to them. They really needed her help to stay alive till father arrives for them.