I'm sorry it took so long to update. Like I said I ran out of juice for this story but right now it seems my wish on an eyelash worked and I have a lot of creativity. So I'd better shut up before I waste it.

Chapter Five

Satsuki returned tired and still grumpy from exterminating the rest of the demons from her vast lands. She wandered around her fortress aimlessly. When Satsuki came to the great hall it seemed so drab and quiet compared to what it had been before she had been banished. It had always been full of chattering courtiers and serious lords. Satsuki dearly missed how she had been allowed to play about in the hall whenever she had wanted when she was a child.

'Maybe if I ever have a child I shall give them that privilege as well.' Satsuki thought as she wandered down where the main walkway would have been. Two curving sets of stairs came up to a balcony above the floor where she would sit had the throne not been torn down by the scum that had invaded her fortress as soon as she had been banished by that danmed dark miko.

A sharp cry rang in the hall and Teresheki flew through the vast room to her mistress. She landed and transformed into a beautiful young hanyou with tawny brown hair and feather-like markings about her eyes and ears. She was dressed in a fine kimono of emerald silk embroidered with scarlet dragons that flew about her slim figure. She bowed to Satsuki and spoke.

"It would seem that many of your old servants are still alive and have found, what I would call, rather shoddy work to make a living." Satsuki considered this for a moment.

"Well, we must liberate them from the jaws of poverty. Let us go Tesheki." Satsuki used her nickname for her best childhood friend. Teresheki smiled and transformed back to her hawk form as the two left the fortress to find Satsuki's old servants.

It's a short chapter and I apologize. But I promise that more is coming soon.

Ja Ne, Arashi