Twentieth: Client 20.5 Old Scented
A goat demon headed to the south to visit his old friend in a small village in the valley. He saw his friend's mate sweeps the dried leaves on the ground before their hut while her small pups play together near her.
"Uncle Yoshi!" A female pup pointed at him and ran toward the man.
"Nami-chan" He raises the girl into the air.
"Nice to see you again, Yoshi…san"
"Hako" He stared at his dear ex-lover is always kind and gentle like when they were in love in the past.
"Tasou went out for a big while but he will back soon if you don't mind to wait for him in the hut."
"It's bother you, Hago and I'll play with them here."
"Hn"
"Uncle Yoshi" A young demon boy tugged his hand. "How long will you stay here?"
"I'll stay here for a few days before I go back home in the next mountain, Sho."
The goat demon held the kids up and walked away from the hut. He made his way to a small stream near the village to join the others pups catch the fishes at the red maple hill in the quite cold noon.
A mule demon carries a basket is full of fruit and vegetable to a hut. He put it on the ground next to a bench is adjoining to the front clay wall. Raccoon demonness sent him a cup of warm tea and sat beside him.
"Yoshi-san is here."
"Hn?" He glanced at his mate. "Where is he now?"
"He took the pups to a nearest stream at the end of the village."
"Did he say anything to you?" But the woman shook her mahogany head.
"I told him to wait for you…"
"Thank you, my mate."
The old friends drink sake while see the full moon rises up in the autumn night sky. They share their living life before fell on the wooden porch until the next drawn light bath their muscular forms.
"Papa! Uncle! Wake up!" The boy shook his father form while the little girl rides Yoshi's back.
"Mmmm…Get out of my back, Nami-chan" He reversed his body and held the little girl into his embrace before rubes his beard at her soft cheek.
"Weee! Please stop, uncle Yoshi. Your beard hurt me
"So do not wake me up like this again. Do you understand?"
"Yes, sir"
"Nami, Sho come here and help me to set the table for our breakfast."
"Breakfast! Breakfast! Breakfast!"
"Such a noisy morning"
In the demon land's afternoon, the goat demon glared at a painting is hanging on the grey wall while plays with the pups. He figured the details of the picture and turned to his friend who sat at the porch.
"What is this painting, Tasou?"
"What?" He turned around to his friend. "A landscape painting"
"Such a strange beautiful painting" He cups his chin. "Does it color with the water colour?"
"Hn"
The goat picks the picture to look close and sniffed the familiar scented on the painting.
"What the matter, my friend?"
"Nothing" He let go of the picture and walked to the porch then he sat down. "Did you paint this picture, Hago?"
"No"
"Or you, Tasou?"
"No, I bought it from a shop in a village in the south."
"Where is it?"
…
The goat traveled to a small village in the south to find the shop where sells that painting after he doubt on the painting and the old scented. He walked into the brown shop and tried to find the shop keeper among the customers but he does not see him.
"May can I help you?" A quack sound came from his back.
"Are you a shop keeper?"
"Yes"
"Do you have a landscape painting?"
"Yes, this way" A duck demon lead him to next room to show him the paintings. "Which one you want to see?"
"My friend bought a water color painting from here." He sent him a borrowed picture to the duck. "Who is the artist of this painting?"
"Let me think" He tried to remember. "Oh! I bought it from the siblings on last month."
"The siblings?"
"Yes, the woman is the older sister and the boy is her brother."
"What does the woman look like?"
"She has medium long brown hair, deep brown eyes, fair skin, and slender body."
"Anything else?"
"Oh! She wore a pained pink and big pelt but I don't know why her brother has a silvery hair if they are siblings."
"Because of their smells are similar to each other." A squirrel demon jumped on a box is near the duck.
"I don't know that you have a good nose, Kei."
"Now, you are already known." The squirrel lifted up his long pipe.
"Well, what are their names, the master?" Yoshi compiles the woman's information.
"Her brother called her Osen and his name might be Ren."
"Osen?" He knitted his brow. "Where do they go?"
"They said they travel to the south." The small demon answered him.
The demon lord landed smoothly on the court of the moon castle after he sensed the wrong thing is happening to her. He walked along the corridor to a northern private wing to see her sat on a thick and soft futon with her henchman.
"Muika"
"Yes, my lady" Then she slid close the paper left her lady with the western lord.
"I heard that you get sick although you never get ill in a thousand and four hundred years since I was born."
"Is there something wrong if I get ill, Maru-kun?"
"No but I am surprising." He crossed his arm.
Suddenly, two familiar scented strikes his nose then he moved close to her and lose her fine cotton kimono.
"What are you doing, Maru-kun?" She tried to lose his grip while he closed his beauteous face to her neck and sniffed once.
"Gnaaaarl"
"Maru-kun" The elegant demonness struggles against him.
"Why does his scented is on you?"
"What do you say?"
"I'm not stupid, mother. Tell me!" So she told him the entire story.
"How dare him" Then he glanced at her. "And you let him mated you again."
He is angry her that she was mated with that blemished man. "Don't you remember the day he left you and me to that wench?"
"Don't blame me, Sesshoumaru and I still recall the day but he forced me." She agonized under him when he pinned and dug his claws on her thin shoulders until he saw her blood seeps. The western lord laps the wound until it was seal before back to his seat.
"I'm sorry." But the lady did not react. "Did you see her, mother?"
"Who?"
"The miko and her scented is on you."
Twentieth: Client 20.5 Old Scented plus
The western heir moved his office to the moon castle for a few weeks. He set his study room next to her room in the private northern wing and usually came into her room three times a day.
"I'm fine, Maru-kun and when will you go back?"
"Why" The demon lord does not turn around to see her but still looks at the roll at his table at a big window in her room.
"Don't you know that you have bothered me?"
"I didn't think like that and you still have a fever."
"I'm said I'm fine."
"So what is it?" He got up and moved close to her to put a fresh fetal at her forehead then it is wilting on her blue crescent moon.
"Hn"
"Get nap and I'll be here all day." He pulled a white and pink blanket to cover her.
'Damn pup' She sighed lightly. 'Like father like son'