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I couldn't keep myself from the computer.
On with the story!
I looked at the village. It had just recently burned, and some of the huts were still on fire. A large black cloud of smoke hung above the village. I movement out of the corner of my eye made me glaze at Nasuku. His hands were fisted at his side in anger.
"Na…General Nasuku?" I asked trying to get his attention. He ignored me and strode toward the remains of the village. I had to run to keep up with him. Soon we were in front of the village. The bodies of dead male demons were all over. Most likely who ever attacked to village took the women and the children. The women would become playthings before they died because of their dead mates and the children would probably be made into slaves. I wanted to throw up. Most of those children wouldn't make it.
"Search for survivors." Nasuku commanded. The army answered with salutes and yes sirs. Nasuku didn't move but just kept staring at the remains a rather large hut while the army walked past him into the village. I went to follow but Nasuku put his arm out preventing me. "You're staying with me." He said. I nodded.
Nasuku strode into the village I walked obediently behind him. We saw no survivors only the bodies of the dead. No hut had not been burned. All had been burned including the people inside. The smell of burned flesh made my stomach turn. I fought the urge to throw up. I didn't want to look weak.
"Please. Don't hurt me." I heard someone say. I spun on my heels and looked around. Nasuku turned and walked past me toward the noise.
"We aren't going to hurt you miss." Someone responded. "We are here to help you."
Nasuku smiled. "It looks like Mushi found someone." I ran after Nasuku, and we soon found Mushi walking our way with a female wolf demon leaning on his shoulder for support. Her left leg was bleeding and appeared broken.
Nasuku approached the woman and she tried to push from Mushi. He grabbed her arm to keep her from falling. "Please miss I told you we aren't here to hurt you." Mushi told her. She just stared at Nasuku. "This is my general, General Nasuku. He won't harm you either." Mushi assured the woman. She slowly nodded and Mushi wrapped her arm around his neck for balance Mushi looked at Nasuku waiting for orders.
"Tell the men to set up a temporary camp." Nasuku told Mushi.
"Yes sir." Mushi replied as he turned the woman and walked towards some soldiers who were still searching for survivors.
"Help me. Mommy where are you mommy? I'm scared." The child's words just appeared in my head and I jumped back in surprise.
Nasuku saw me jump. "What is it Rook?" He asked.
I looked at him slightly confused. "There's a child nearby. She's looking for her mother." Nasuku looked at me puzzled.
"What?" He asked.
"There's a child nearby, and she's all alone. I feel pulled to her. It's some kind of…" I walked closer to Nasuku, and whispered. "female instinct."
He nodded in understanding. "So where is she?" He asked.
"Mommy please. I'm scared and hungry." The child spoke again
I spun and looked at the hut behind me. I wasn't as damaged as the others, and it was possible that the child was in there. I pointed to the hut. "She's in there."
"Mommy they found me! The bad people found me!" The girl cried in my head. "Now they're going to kill me."
"She thinks we're going to hurt her, Nasuku." I told him. "Let me go by myself first so she isn't frightened anymore." Nasuku nodded and I walked over to the hut entrance. I pushed the burnt mat that hung from the entrance and walked in.
I looked around the room. I didn't see any child and I couldn't smell her out because the air was so strong with smoke. I walked into the middle of the room and lowered myself to my knees. "I know you are here child." I said in a gentle tone; one that a mother might use.
"Mommy help." The child cried. "HELP!"
"Please don't worry. I'm not here to harm you. I came here because I heard you calling for your mother. I'm here to get you somewhere safe. I am a soldier of Lord Sesshomaru. I'm only here to help." I told the child. "Please come out." Slowly I saw the head of a young cat demon stick out from behind a burnt barrel. She had hair somewhere in between blonde and brown and had light blue eyes. Judging by how she looked she couldn't have been older than three.
I smiled at the kitten. "Yes that's it." I told her. "I'm only here to help. I'm sorry if I scared…" I didn't get to finish my sentence because the child came running from behind the barrel and hugged me, crying. She buried her face in my chest and cried loudly. I wrapped my arm around her and waited for her to stop crying.
After about fifteen minutes she calmed down and she loud sobs became muffle sniffles. "There you go." I said softly. "Let it all out." She removed her head from my chest and stared at me.
"Where's my mommy?" She asked. My heart felt like someone had squeezed it. The girl stared at me wanting an answer.
I bowed my head and answered. "I don't know." The girl burst into tears and buried her head in my chest again. "I'm so sorry." I told her. The girl cried for another fifteen minutes then stopped. When the child stopped crying I noticed she was a sleep. I stood up with the child in my arms and walked outside. Nasuku was sitting next to the entrance looking bored.
When he saw me walk out he stood up, and looked at the child. "Is she injured?" He asked as he ran his hand threw the child's hair.
I shrugged. "I'm not sure. I don't think she is." I answered. "She was so tired she cried herself to sleep in my arms."
Nasuku nodded. "She's so young." He said. "Her mother and father are probably gone and here she is all alone in the world." He picked her from my arms and held her. "The poor child."
"I know. She's so helpless, and fragile." I said. The child snuggled into Nasuku's chest and mumbled 'Daddy.' Nasuku just smiled at the child and rocked her in his arms.
The child smiled in her sleep and grabbed Nasuku's shirt. "You know Nasuku you would make a great father." I said.
"I hope to be one someday." Nasuku replied.
"But that would mean you would have to stay with one female." I said. "That would be hard for you wouldn't it. I swear if what everyone says is true you have taken every unmated female in the palace."
Nasuku gave me a hurt look. "I haven't taken everyone. A couple of them have gotten away." He said as if it were a joke. I gave him an it's-not-funny-look. "Besides I haven't done anything…wrong in two years."
"Wow it's a record." I said as I spun on my heels and walked away. Nasuku followed. I walked out of the village to see that camp was set up. There were tents everywhere all with the royal crest on them. I walked into camp and stopped to wait for Nasuku. He took his own sweet time to catch up.
"Your tents by mine." He told me as he walked past.
That took me by surprise. "What? Why?" I asked confused.
Nasuku kept walking. "I don't want you to get into trouble. So I put you near me so I could keep my eye on you." I caught up with Nasuku and walked with him through the camp. I guess it made sense to put me near Nasuku. He was the only one who knew who I really was.
Nasuku and I were have way through the camp when Mushi went flying from a tent and landed in front of me. "Mushi are you ok?" I asked concerned.
He looked up at me and I noticed the slap mark across his face. "All I was trying to do was make wrap her broken leg." Mushi told me.
"Oh are you talking about the woman from the village?" I asked. Mushi nodded. "What did you do?"
Mushi stood up and brushed off his clothes. "Nothing. I was just wrapping her leg and all of a sudden she slapped me." He rubbed his cheek. "She's strong."
I looked at Nasuku. "I'll be right back." He nodded and I walked into the tent Mushi had come flying out of. "Uh miss?" I asked when I walked in.
The wolf demon looked at me. "Can I help you?" She asked.
I sat down in front of her. "Why did you whack my comrade out of this tent?" I asked.
"He was a pervert! He ran his hand down my thigh!" She told me.
I laughed outright. "Mushi? Mushi hasn't had a pervert thought in his life." I told the woman. "I assure you miss it was an accident. He would never do such a thing. To tell you the truth Mushi is sort of an idiot." The woman stared at me. "I just wish for you not to hit him again, ok?" She nodded and I smiled. I stood up. "If you ever need anything my name is Rook." I walked out of the tent to see Mushi talking to Nasuku about the kitten.
"She's so small." Mushi said as he smiled and patted her head.
"Mushi." I said. He spun around and looked at me. "It was a misunderstanding. She thought you were being perverted. See your hand rubbed against her thigh and she flipped."
Mushi looked at me confused. "I would never…"
"Yes I told her that. Don't worry she probably won't hit you anymore. Just be careful where your hands go." I told him. He nodded and walked back into the tent.
Nasuku chuckled behind me. "What?" I asked.
"She thought Mushi was being perverted." Nasuku replied. "Mushi perverted? That's just insane."
I nodded "I know. I laughed when I heard it too." I told him.
Nasuku smiled. "Come on." Nasuku said and started walking again. I followed him until he stopped. "Here we are." He said as he went to enter one. Then motioned for me to follow. I followed without hesitation. "This is my tent." Nasuku said as he sat down.
"How do you know that?" I asked as I sat across from him. "All the tents looked the same to me."
"After a while you notice the small differences in each tent making you able to find your own." He explained.
"Ok." I answered still a bit confused as to how the hell you can see a difference in the tents. The girl in Nasuku's arms shifted and slowly opened her eyes.
Nasuku smiled at her. "Why hello there." The girl's eyes widened and she looked around. The second she saw me she jumped out of Nasuku's arms and tackled me in a tight hug. Nasuku looked at me dumbfounded. "I'm not that scary am I?"
The girl was shaking slightly in my arms and I knew her waking up to Nasuku wasn't the best idea. "Shhh…It's ok." I told her as I put my hand on the back of her head and ran my hand through her hair in a comforting manner. "It's ok."
Nasuku watched me comfort the child, and smiled. "You know you wouldn't make that bad of a parent either." He told me.
I gave him a look that yelled for him to shut up. This child was scared to death and right now she didn't need to hear Nasuku. All he would do is scare her more. "Shhh…I'm sorry I didn't mean for him to scare you." I told the child. She removed her head from my chest again and looked over her shoulder at Nasuku. He smiled at her and she buried her head in my chest again.
He chuckled. "A shy one, isn't she?"
"Nasuku." I warned. "Shhh child…It's ok he wouldn't hurt you." I girl looked up at me and I smiled. "You're safe. No one is going to hurt you."
The girl nodded, let go of me, and sat in my lap. She stared at Nasuku and he stared back. To Nasuku and my surprise the girl spoke. "Hi."
"Uh…hi." Nasuku replied. The girl jumped off my lap and walked over to him. He stared at her. The girl raised her arms, and Nasuku picked her up and set her in his lap. "So I'm not scary?"
She shook her head and motioned for him to let her whisper in his ear. He leaned forward and she told him something. A light blush appeared on his face when she looked at him waiting for an answer. "Uh…no." He replied.
I raised an eyebrow. "What did she ask you?" I asked him.
Nasuku shook his head, but I didn't have to protest the girl told me exactly what she had asked. "I was wonderin' if you were his mate." The girl said in a cute little high-pitched tone.
"W-what?" I stuttered. "I'm not his…Hold on. How did you now I was a girl?"
That's when it dawned to Nasuku. "That's right. How could you tell?"
The girl tilted her head to the side and looked at me. "You heard me callin' for my mommy."
'That's right.' I thought. "So it wasn't the way I looked that gave me away?" I asked. The girl shook her head. "Ok good." I said sighing. The girl then turned to and looked at Nasuku.
"So why aren't you and her mated?" The girl asked.
Nasuku still a bit flushed answered. "She's to young for me." Soon after that a sword sheath hit Nasuku square in the head. "I mean she's my student." He corrected rubbing the bump on his head.
The girl put her index finger on her chin. "Oh." Nasuku smiled at the child then glazed at me, and shook his head. Children were too innocent.
About an hour later I took the girl to a nearby stream and got her washed up. There she told me her name was Kya. I thought the name was cute.
After the quick bath I took Kya back to Nasuku's tent and she fell asleep in his lap. He was smiling the whole time while he ran his hand threw her hair. While she slept Nasuku and I discussed what we would do with her. Even though we were perfectly capable of taking care of her we couldn't have her here. We were at war. Not really the best place for a child.
"We could send her to the palace. I'm sure my mother would love to take care of her." I suggested.
"Yes that would work but how would we get her from here to there?" Nasuku asked.
"I don't know." I replied. "Maybe I could run her up there."
"And even if we did get her there what about after the war?" Nasuku thought out loud. "What would happen to her then?"
That one was easy. "I could take care of her. That one wasn't that hard Nasuku." I told him. He sighed and nodded.
"I still can't help but feel bad for her. She lost everything." Nasuku said.
I nodded. "All we can do at this point is help her." Kya at that point stretched and snuggled into Nasuku's knee. We both laughed.
Nearby somewhere in the forest a mysterious cat demon ran. He was armed with a bow and some arrows and had some foreign instrument attached to a strap that hung on his shoulder. He was looking for a place to hide from the demon chasing him. It had been on his tail all day and was catching up quickly. He saw a hole in the ground under a tree in between its roots and slid underneath it.
DONE! BU YAH!
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