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Thinking speak: Stupid arrogant dog demons

Inu Language:What the hell are you!

Chapter 29: Forest of Mist

The Forest of Mist was considered haunted, it had been so for over a decade. The people of the villages that bordered it no longer went into it, and no longer used its trees for wood, lest they anger the spirit that dwelt within. Few had seen the spirit that was said to live in the forest, but those who had said they could see nothing but a thick black mist, or gold or red eyes in the darkness. A small shrine had even been set up near the edge of the forest, to placate the restless spirit.

A group of teenage boys quietly tip toed past the small shrine, and made their way into the woods. They whispered taunts to each other, egging one another to go further in. Each time a twig snapped or an animal called, they all jumped, scared out of their minds, but not willing to look like a coward.

They all froze as a low, threatening growl reached their ears. They all slowly turned around, and screamed, before running from the forest spirit. What they had seen were a large pair of red eyes, glowing in the darkness of a near-moonless night, arched high above them, and surrounded in a black fog. As the boys ran, the spirit snorted, and turned into pure black mist.

All but one of the boys made it back to the shrine. The remaining boys fell over, their sides aching and breath laboured. They knew their friend had tripped over a log, but none had stopped. If their friend survived to morning, they would be glad, but there was no way they were going back into that haunted forest!


Koji dragged himself against a large tree trunk, breathing heavily from pain and fear. He had tripped over a fallen log, and rolled into a ditch. When he tried to stand, he found that his leg was broken.

So now, he had to sit and wait. His friends probably wouldn't come looking for him, and neither would anyone else till morning...

He stiffened when he heard the crunch of leaves and twigs against the forest floor. His heartbeat quickened as the sound grew closer. He slowly turned his head, and watched in fear as to what was near. When the sound was almost upon him, he could also hear the soft sound of silk brushing against silk, and low mutterings. People! Koji's spirits lifted, thinking that his rescuers had braved the forest so quickly. He looked up with joy when he saw the black clad foot and white hakama leg round the tree trunk, only to be even more terrified than before.

Before the teenager stood a young youkai, pointed ears and all. His cold glare sent shivers down his spine, and the boy backed away, trying to look smaller. When the deadly being walked away, followed by another youkai he had not gotten a good look at, Koji began to cry. Not only had he run into a ghost and broken his leg, he had also survived being the object of a youkai's attention, no matter how small a time that was. How he couldn't wait till morning.


Sesshomaru walked through the forest, bored. His new shadow, a kappa named Jaken, muttered to himself, making far too much noise. How was he meant to track her with all that noise? And not only that, he could hear a rapid heartbeat and heavy breathing of a terrified ningen. What was a ningen doing out here in the middle of the night anyway?

As he rounded a large tree trunk, he found the pathetic excuse for a mortal. And judging from the boys expressions, heart beats and scent, he had probably been expecting someone else. The momentary distraction quickly lost its appeal though. Turning away from the cowering ningen, and ignoring Jaken's comments, he walked away.


Jaken was getting tired of walking, especially when his new master would not tell him anything. He had been following Lord Sesshomaru for almost two months, and had yet to get used to his master's cold, indifferent attitude. And now he was taking them into a forest that locals called haunted, looking for kami knows what.

"Um... Sesshomaru-sama... what are we looking for exactly?"

Jaken was getting the creeps more and more, the deeper they went, the worse the feeling. He didn't miss Sesshomaru's annoyed glare.

"It's just that, your humble servant cannot aid you if you do not tell him what you are seeking, milord..."

Sesshomaru stood glaring for a moment more, before walking again.

"The being I seek cannot be found by lesser beings unless she wishes. Even I, Sesshomaru, am having... trouble finding her exact location."

Jaken was shocked speechless. Not only had his lord told him what he was doing, but had said so in more than half a sentence! He wondered who it was they were seeking. A witch? A fortune teller? His old crazy aunt who nobody liked, but he had to visit every now and again anyway? No matter, he was sure his master could find them. So he waddled after Sesshomaru, in a slightly better mood than he had been in weeks.


Tsukiko drifted away from the edge of her forest, satisfied that she had scared the intruders enough to have peace and quiet for a while again. She had dwelt in the forest for over a decade now, and had preferred the local ningens think that she was a ghost so they would leave her alone.

Over the years that she had been living alone, she had mastered her phasing abilities, and her demonic abilities. She had also been able to learn better control over her beast as well. She and her beast were more in tune now, and she could better understand her mixed instincts. She spent quite a lot of time in her true form as well, sometimes not transforming back for months at a time.

Her entire mist form stilled when she felt a large amount of yokai in the area. She began to drift towards it, thinning herself till she was not visible. She recognised this yokai. It had been years since he had visited, and it was even stronger than the last time. She was defiantly going to have some fun with him.


Floating in the canopy above a particular fluffy demon lord and a loud, ugly kappa, Tsukiko listened and watched with interest. Sesshomaru had never been a fan of retainers, so why had he acquired one? And why did it have to be such a suck up? The way it praised Sesshomaru was actually sickening. She had no idea how Sessh could stand it.

She knew that Sesshomaru could sense her nearby, but not her exact location. She would probably never be able to completely hide from him. She floated onto an overhanging branch, still phased, and waited for the two to pass underneath. She inwardly smirked as Sesshomaru passed, and phased into her solid form, sitting lazily on the branch. She lowered her fluffy tail, and before the kappa noticed her, wrapped it around him, and lifted him off the ground.

"A Kappa Sessh? Honestly, you couldn't get a better retainer?"

Sesshomaru turned around, eyebrow raised at the sight of his new retainer dangling in the air by a fluffy black tail. The poor kappa was yelling at the top of his lungs for his captor to release him.

"Release him. Jaken, silence." Tsukiko smirked, and raised the kappa higher, before dropping him. She jumped down, and walked over to Sesshomaru, stepping on his retainer on the way.

"What happened Sessh, you've become such a spoil sport. Can't you even drop the mask near me now?" She was having fun winding him up, she needed to get him back for all the trouble him and his courting mark had caused her over the years.

Jaken was livid with this female. She had not only humiliated him, and stepped on him, but now was speaking so disrespectfully to his lord.

"Wench! How dare you speak to Sesshomaru-sama with such disrespect! And to not call him by his title! Feel the wrath of the staff of two heads for your insolence!"

He raised his staff, and was about to burn the wench before him, but suddenly found himself propelled away, and landing on his head.

"eeerrrrr... what happened...?"

He looked up, vision slightly foggy, to find the wench standing over him, a war fan in her hands. How had she done that?

Tsukiko folded away her fan again, and slipped it into her obi.

"I can call Sessh whatever I want kappa, cant I fluf..eep!"

Why couldn't she learn to keep her mouth shut. And why did he seem to find it amusing to keep her quiet by kissing her. She felt his smirk on her lips, and relaxed slightly. At least it wasn't that bad of a punishment.

Jaken just stared. His cold, aloft lord was kissing the wench. His jaw dropped, he could not believe what he was seeing. Then he noticed the mark along the side of the onna's neck. A long line stretched from her collar bone to her jaw, the same colour as his lord's crescent moon marking. He is courting her! Flustered, he backed away, suddenly afraid that his lord would want his life for threatening his intended, and surprised he still had his head.

Sesshomaru growled low as the woman in his arms tried to wiggle out, refusing to let her get away from his lips. He had not seen her in years, he wanted to savour this. His beast was pleased that they had found her again; she had a bad habit of giving them the slip.


Tsukiko stood and streached out, peeking over her shoulder at the Inu Lord she had been sitting next to, with his less than impressed expression.

"Oh come on Sessh, I just want to take a bath, you dont have to glare at me like that."

"You will not leave"

"But I want to bathe, the hot spring is not far, kudasai?"

"Hn..." Sesshomaru paused, thinking. "Only if this Sesshomaru comes too"

Tsukiko looked at him like he had just done some sort of stupid dance or told a sick joke.

"HENTAI!" Turning around quickly, making sure to hit him with her tail, she walked out of the small camp. When she heard him snarl and begin to stand, she phased, causeing a certain demon lord to have, what could only be described as a tantrum.


Three Days. It had been three days since she had pulled the bathing stunt, and three days since Sesshomaru had allowed her to move more than two feet from him. And the amount of yokai he was using to keep her from phasing had scared off not only the few lesser youkai that she had allowed to stay, but every animal with half a brain too!

Flattering as his possessiveness of her was (to her beast at least), it was getting rather annoying.

"Fluffy..."

Sesshomaru glared at her, showing his displeasure at the nick name.

"Oh come on, how long are you planning on staying here with me? Im sure you have things to do elsewhere, am I not correct?" She looked at the kappa across the camp site. "Am I correct, little Yokai?"

"My name is Jaken, my Lady, and hai, you are correct" Jaken looked bored and sick of this too.

"See Sessh? You have stuff to do, you cant spend all you time here."

"Then why not come home?"

"Sessh..." The whine that came from the back of his throat caused her to turn to him, surprised to hear such a noise from him.

Sesshomaru shuffled closer to her, ignoring the funny looks his retainer was now giving him, and slung an arm around her waist, burying his nose at the crook of her neck.

"Kudasai?"

How can he pull off glares that can almost kill one minute, then puppy dog eyes the next?

She sighed, and leaned into him.

"Fine, I'll come VISIT, happy?

"That is sufficient, for now."


Tsukiko sighed, leaning back on one of the branches of her faviourite trees. She had just returned from one of her visits to the western fortress, and was glad to be back out in the forest she had claimed for more than a decade. It wasnt that she didnt like visiting, but her beast was not ready to go back yet, and threw a tantrum each time Sesshomaru pressured her to go back. When she could go back, and not have her beast complain about it, was when she would know that she had overcome her mixed instincts.

In the year since Sesshomaru had found her forest, she had gone to visit three times, each for a few weeks at the most. She had enjoyed being able to just relax, having time to chat with Yuugao, and please her Inu side with contact with her pack, but eventually her Ryuu side had show itself again, and each time would force her to leave.

She had been pleasntly surprised to find no invading lesser youkai in her territory when she returned this time though, it meant she could rest after her journey, rather than having to rid her forest of them.


The eerily still forest was once again playing host to teenagers wanting to test their courage. The silently walked though the dark, eyes darting around for danger. But unlike the last group the forest had seen scared off, these were no ningen teens; they were youkai.

The young blue eyed Ookami youkai and his pack of friends had heard of this forest, which was bordering their lands, and the spirit which apparently haunted it. They doubted it was a ghost, more like a few lesser youkai that did not wish to be bothered by ningens. So they had come for two reasons. First, to show they wernt afraid to enter, and seccond, to slay the youkai to prove their hunting skills to their elders.

The blue eyed youkai signled to to others to fan out, and to start trying to track the youkai. He flexed his claws, before getting to work with his own nose.


Tsukiko could feel the partially concealed auras of about half a dozen young youkai coming in her direction. Raising her head from her paws, she snorted in irritation, before rising, and compleetly consealing her own aura and scent. She was too tired to be bothered phasing, so she quietly stalked towards the intruders in her true form.

When she found them, she had the high ground. She studied the pack of young ookami, and huffed. They were all younger than her, the younger ones around 30ish, and the eldest probably not even 40. They also had around 10 lesser ookami youkai with them, ones without human forms. As they moved closer together again to go past the ledge she was on, she dropped down behind them, giving a low, territorial growl.


He hadn't even realized it was there till he heard the sound of it landing behind them, and a low threatening growl. As the blue eyed ookami and his pack spun around, they found their exit cut off by a dragon. It wasn't the biggest dragon, but it defiantly looked threatening. He could hardly make it out, its black scales and fur blending into the dark forest perfectly, with only its red eyes and markings giving it away. He breathed in sharply with fear, then sniffed again, confused. Now that it was close, he could smell it, and it smelled... like a dog?

He looked the beast in the eye, before growling out in the canine language.

"What the hell are you, you look Ryuu, but smell Inu?"

"I am half each, but that matters not. You are in my forest Ookami, leave"

The blue eyed Ookami stopped to think, Half Inu, half Ryuu? Where had he heard that before?

"Are you the half Inu bitch that lived in the western fortress?"

"Hai, how would you know?"

He straitened up, puffing up to appear bigger, and stopped speaking in growls.

"I am Kouga, prince of the Northern Wolf tribe, and Eastern lands."

Tsukiko stopped to think. Yes, she had heard the name before, due to being in charge of Touga's paperwork for years. This prince had been born five years before InuYasha, the firstborn son of the Northern lord, along with three sisters in the same litter.

"Fine, but you must still leave. You are on Western Lands, and I am sure Sesshomaru has not been informed that the son of the Northern lord is here..."

Kouga paled. "Fine, we'll go."

"Good Pup" She sidestepped to allow the pack of Ookami to pass. "Do not find yourself in my forest again without permission, prince Kouga. Had Sesshomaru been here, Im not sure you would still have all you limbs."

She watched as Kouga and his pack left, before slowly returning to the clearing she had been sleeping in. She probably was a bit harsh, but Ookami never were very good with borders and territories.


Im so sorry this is extremely late! I didnt forget, I moved house XD

I moved to my dads, and just after I got my comp all set up, what little of my Internet credit was left expired, and then my dad's computer crashed. THEN my own comp crashed too X3. I wrote 7 pages to make up for it X3

Ok, so this chapter is about the forest where Tsu has taken up residence. And sorry about the part with Tsu visiting the shiro again, but it not being written about. I wanted this chapter to be JUST things happening inside the forest, so I timeskiped by a year in the middle there X3

And yey! Kouga X3 And an entourage. Ginta and Hakku are in there, but since this is pre-kagura killing the wolf tribes, Kouga's got quite a few more buddies right now X3

And I had Kouga describe Tsu as "It wasn't the biggest dragon, but it defiantly looked threatening", because although Tsu's true form (at this point) is about 3.5m tall at the shoulder, some of the dragons we see Sessh slay in the manga/anime are MASSIVE.

Soldier of Passion: Yeah, it was a bit OOC, but I had to do it somehow X3

Steph the bat 11: Sorry to make you wait so long! And it must have been so funny to anyone watching you when you were laughing and having a fangirl attack XDD

Dontgotaclue88: Im glad you liked it X3

Everliss the wolf: PLEASE say you didnt die from suspense! And having Sessh chase Tsu is too much fun X3 I have no idea how Im gonna be able to stop writing it, ever X3.

Royal Kitsune: I seem to have that problem a lot, lol X3 Find somthing, put it down (where I think I'll remember it), 5 min later, cant find it XDD

Reawakened Princess: Thankyou!

Jinjiro Mitsu: Thank you! Glad to gain another fan ^^ I feel Sessh is often misunderstood, so playing on that, its not that hard to slowly make him get more into "cannon" Sesshie from where he is now.

Ivy's Siren: Thanks! I think, with Tsu's personality, that Sessh will always have "girl problems", in one form or another, that'll be fun to write and even more fun to read X3

x3sYellowie: I have plans for Tsu's family (And Satoshi and has evil gang of Inu-haters), but they wont be happening till Kagome is in the picture.

Independant yet in love: Sorry it took so long to update! Im uploading two chapters today, and another possibly today, possibly tomorrow (its half finished).

MoonlightArrow: Thank you! I loved the idea of the relationships between the three in my head, and im really happy with how they have turned out once written.

Thanks for reading, and again, Im so sorry it was massivly late!

Oh, and to all who dont know, LightningRip has made a community for "Last of My Clan Fans"!

And I have uploaded several refrence sketches and sketches of scenes from this fic on my DA, if you wanted to see.

Thanks for R&R!

*Hands out cookies and ramen*

And Im half way through chapter 31 (Here is the name as a spoiler "The Monk and the Mercanary"), and I'll be replying to any reviews from this chapter and the next (unless your like, super quick and can review this chapter before I post the next in 5 min) in that one.

Dont worry if there is then a longish gap before the next chapter. My dad is a bit touchy about his comp since it crashed, and doesnt really like anyone else on it much, so I'll have to write a few chapters, then upload them at once.