Disclaimer: Inuyasha and its crew doesn't belong to me. Though I wish Kouga, Sesshomaru and Sango did but oh well. The only thing belonging to me are my characters.

Author Notes: Ok I have decided to change something slightly from here onwards, nothing big really just the dialogue.

"Talking"

'Thoughts'

/Wolf speech/ - basically animal language that demons/animals use to communicate, e.g. barks, whines, etc.

Telepathy – This will be used mainly by mates.

Princess of the Wolves

Chapter 12

It's been four days since Inuyasha's challenge, and he sulks about the village about his loss. Many times Yamainu attempts to reconcile with the half dog demon but he always brushes her off till finally she has given up.

But now she has something to look forward to, Yuri has healed enough for them to continue on there journey, but she told the others she had to separate from them now, since they will be entering Sesshomaru's domain and she would not know how he would react to them with her besides her pack.

"I am a Lord Yamainu, so I have rights since your pack dwells on my lands." Kouga tried to reason with her.

Yamainu sighed at her self-proclaimed big brother, "Brother I am a grown woman, and I can handle myself and Sesshomaru."

Kouga snorted, "A woman in human terms, a pup by demon terms. Besides this is the Ice Prince we are talking about here."

"Kouga I am fine with Sesshomaru, you have nothing to worry about. He is a gentleman," she replied then whispered, "unlike someone I know."

Ayame giggled hearing that and smiled, "Kouga take it easy, you know Lord Sesshomaru is one who doesn't like or take back his word. If he says he is going to train her, he will train her."

Kouga sighed "Fine, but you better come back in one piece."

Yamainu smiled at her friends, "Don't worry so much, are you going to hold my hand when I take Alpha position in my pack?"

Kouga grumbled and Ayame and Yamainu giggled. Soon Yamainu bid farewell to Kouga's group and continued her journey further into the domain where Sesshomaru resides.

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It was well past midday that the pack decided to rest by a river. Yamainu had sent out a few wolves to patrol the area while she fished for some food for herself and her pack.

She stood still in the river waiting for her prey to come close, waiting to strike quickly. Soon a fish can close to her and in a blink of an eye her hand shot forward and drew back with the fish between her claws and threw it on the growing pile by the shore. She looked towards the pile and decided to get one more and turned her attention back to the river.

In the trees Sesshomaru watched the wolf princess as she hunted for her pack. He couldn't help but to watch her. Every since the gathering in the north; many months ago; he has been finding himself fascinated by this creature, one whom was neither human nor demon and didn't even fit in the category hanyou.

'What do you call one whom doesn't fit any of those descriptions?' he wondered, now many believed him to be a cold demon to heart but truthfully he was as curious as any cat demon, it was in his nature of things. He liked to know what something did or who a specific person is for future reference. And now he finds a creature that he can't even catalog.

As he thought it over a memory came to him, one of his mother once told him when he was just a young pup.

…FLASHBACK…

An elegant demoness with long flowing silver hair sat next to her son's futon as he gets ready to sleep.

"My lil Sesshomaru tonight I will tell you a tale that belongs to the wolves." She spoke softly to her son.

Sesshomaru looked to his mother, "What wolf tale could be that interesting mother?" He asked.

She laughed softly before answering, "Remember my pup, some tales are sown from legends and some legends come from truths. This which I am about to tell you is a legend amongst wolves, it is called 'The Princess of Wolves'."

Sesshomaru sat up and looked to his mother curiously like any curious pup.

"I believe it takes place about two thousand years ago, in those times wolf demons were ranked much higher than dog demons."

"That I don't believe mother!" Sesshomaru spoke out surprised by.

She smiled and nodded, "It is true, they are the reason dog demons like us are called Daiyoukai. Our ancestors got the name from the wolf demons, because both in true form looked almost identical." She informed her son and giggled at his wide eye expression.

"What happened to the wolf Daiyoukai?"

"Well wolves are very loyal and noble creatures, their kind always produce great warriors, but there was a pack that thought themselves higher than the rest of their kind, and it was because of this pack that the wolves faced their greatest shame."

"What did they do mother?"

"They ruled their territory in such a way that it vexed the Gods. They rubbed the humans, killed humans for sport, the land itself began to suffer, and even fellow youkai were not speared by them. Other wolf packs tried to stop them for they knew something would happen and it did. One day a human woman came to that packs territory, they said she was radiant; she was petite but elegant, long raven hair and deep ebony eyes that shone with life.

The members of that pack captured the woman and took them to their Alpha. When the woman was brought before him she showed no fear and asked, "Why do you terrorize this land so? Are you not happy with what you had?" the Alpha laughed and told her cockily that they shouldn't hide but reap what is rightfully theirs.

The woman frowned at the reply and spoke, "And because of your greed you would bring shame on your kind?" he told her that he will rule their kind but setting an example on how they should live and not even the Gods could stop them. But the woman had enough and released an awesome power, markings appeared on her brow like dots and her very presence showed who she was, she was a goddess sent from above to observe and punish."

Sesshomaru leaned forward in awe of the tale spun for him by his mother as she return an old legend of the wolves.

"The pack tried to attack her but were killed, and those whom escaped death back away from her till it was just her and the Alpha. She told him that the Gods were not happy with him and that because of him his kind will be punished until redemption. The Alpha thought he would live but she told him that for he and his pack only death awaits and she killed them all. As she left she came across an elder pure black wolf wounded, she walked to him and spoke, "Are you of them?" the wolf replied saying he calm to reason with the foolish Alpha but was attacked and almost killed if she hadn't appeared.

The Goddess showed sympathy for the elder wolf whose name was Shiniga and spoke with him. "From you I can tell that not all your kind is bad, but still they must be punished. The demons rank will fall and no longer be Daiyoukai, the beasts will lose their power and become ordinary creatures of the forest. But you Shiniga, I will take pity for the deed you tried to accomplish. You're pack of beasts will keep their power and you make travel to fifteen other beast packs to home you think are worthy."

Now Shiniga was surprised by this and nodded in agreement, he was no foolish old wolf but a seasoned warrior in his own rights and asked the Goddess what kind of redemption must his kind do so they can survive for he knew that many will want to hurt them for what that pack did. The Goddess replied, "A wolf will be born, born from human. She will be the one to save wolf kind but to do this I need to find a wolf that spirit will merge with hers."

Shiniga volunteered saying he had lived a long life and this was the least he can do for his kind. The Goddess agreed and told him to go forth and find beast packs that will retain their powers, he had one month then she would take his spirit. Then she healed the old wolf and vanished.

So for one month Shiniga traveled and found the fifteen beasts packs worthy to keep their demonic powers and returned to his own pack. There he told his Alpha, a noble wolf demon of what is to come. His Alpha was skeptical and sent his warriors to investigate and soon found out that Shiniga told the truth.

At the end of the month the Goddess appeared before Shiniga and his pack. She told the Alpha their punishment and Shiniga told her of the beast packs. She release a wave of power over that land and all wolf demons felt a large decrease of their powers but accepted their fate and the Goddess took Shiniga with her as she left. Her final words were, "A wolf will be born of human; she will neither be human, demon nor hanyou. For within her a wolf's spirit will reside. So when the hour of redemption has come to an end the wolf spirit will come, for she will be the wolf princess."

And that is how the legend of this tale came about my pup."

…END FLASHBACK…

Sesshomaru looked back down at young princess as she and her pack finish eating and softly spoke, "She will be neither human nor demon nor hanyou, but will be a spirit whom will save all of wolf kind." With that he leapt down from where he was and slowly approached her.

Yamainu looked up from her cleaning and spotted Sesshomaru approaching her, "My Lord." She greeted.

Sesshomaru nodded his head slightly in acknowledgement and looked her over, "This Sesshomaru shall lead you to my fortress where you will begin your training."

Yamainu collected her things and walked over to him, her wolves gathering around them. She couldn't help but admire this strong male before her. "I place myself in your hands my Lord."

Sesshomaru nodded and began to make his way to his home, Yamainu and her pack following close behind him, taking her first steps towards this new adventure with the Lord of the West as her guide.

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Authors Note:

OH MY GODS! I finally finished this chapter. I am so sorry for this long wait but my muse decided to take a long vacation. I just haven't been in the Inuyasha mood, been caught up with watching Naruto. Just recently read some Inuyasha stories and decided to try and finish this chapter I started long ago.

Well as you can see I put how the legend of the Wolf Princess came about from lil Sesshomaru.

I will try get the next chapter up soon, but I can't promise on a speedy update, just know I won't be abandoning it. I do plan on finishing this story if it's the last thing I do.

Ja Ne!