DISCLAIMER: I don't own Inuyasha and his friends. And though I created Katsue and her kin, I do not own them. They have minds of their own that I have no control over. Still no using them without my permission.
Katsue, Inari, Rubii, & Oni: "Damn straight."
Pre-Post Author's Notes: Sorry I haven't been getting the posts in as quickly as I used to, I'm just trying to keep to my review quota. But I think I'll change it a little. I'll either post a chapter a week or when I get five reviews, so if you want the next chapter sooner REVIEW!
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Chapter Five; Hunters Moon
It was late afternoon when Katsue stopped running. She sniffed the air and smiled. 'So close to home.' was the only thought running through her mind, walking slowly for the rest of her trek. She stepped into a clearing filled with mists, a large one-story house in its center. This sight made the cat demon's heart do a summersault.
"Just as I remember it," she purred to herself, sniffing the air once again, the scent of lilacs and jasmine tickling her nose. "Smells the way it did too." She ran up to the door and didn't hesitate to open it. She resisted the urge to call out to someone to see if someone was home. She knew no body was. Everything was where it was last time she was there, the low table with the pillows surrounding it was in the center, the bedroom doors to the right side, the bathhouse to the left. Her gaze was brought to the fireplace, flames crackling welcomingly in it. She sniffed at the air again and smiled a little wider. Her father had been here. He'd always done this for her and her mother when they turned human. She noticed there was a package on the table. She knelt down on one of the pillow and looked at a wooden box with a note that said, 'To Katsue, a present for my little girl. It was your mother's, I hope you like it. Glad to hear you are well. Love father.'
"How the hell would he know if I was well?" It only took her a moment to realize that one of her younger siblings must have sent him a message through a retainer, probably one of Oni's. She opened the box to reveal a sleeveless purple Chinese style dress trimmed in black. She held it up to notice that if she were to put it on it would barely cover her legs when she walked, the sides were slit at the thigh to the edge of the skirt. She remembered this dress; her mother had worn it when she fought because it was easy to move around in. She decided to try it on after she took a bath. 'Mmmm a warm bath, haven't had one of those since that incident at the hot spring with the older siblings.' She entered the bathhouse, placing her mother's dress carefully to the side before undressing. She braided her hair and wrapped her tail around her waist again as she slid into the warm water. She began to doze as she murmured, "Tonight could actually be a good one." She fell into a light sleep, not knowing how wrong she was.
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Outside the house in a tree high above the ground, Shinoko was fiddling with her gray tresses and tail, bored from waiting. She knew about this house and hated it. It had a spell that kept all but the people whose blood was mixed with the magic of the barrier around the house. "Damn it father. You had to make a place where your beloved half blood Aiyana and the brat would be safe." She was silently cursing as she felt someone joining her. She didn't acknowledge Nikuta as he sat beside her but she knew it was him.
"Why do you want to kill her so badly? You killed her mother and most of mother's family. Why not let her live? She didn't have anything to do with Tsunari's death." His voice kept its usual nonchalant tone but if one had looked past his storm colored bangs into his eyes they would have found that they were smoldering with hatred. Shinoko laughed. "You are very wrong brother. It is her fault. That bitch Aiyana kept Tsunari from taking Katsue's soul while she was still in her womb. She killed our big brother to save her own unborn child's life. Very selfish if you ask me."
"Sounds pretty sensible to me sister. Would you stop me if I tried to kill your child while it was still in you?" He was clenching his fists, drawing blood. Shinoko looked at her hands to find them bleeding then looked at Nikuta's hands. "Why are you upset brother?" she asked. This made him snap.
"Why am I upset? I'm upset because my sister turned into a homicidal bitch and won't listen to common sense. Tsunari was a stupid jackass who was afraid his position as father's heir would be usurped by the child of his second wife. He fucking killed three of their children the same way he was going to kill Katsue and made it look like she had miscarriages. I would have killed him myself if you hadn't stopped me." He shook with rage as he spoke to his sister. She just shrugged. "If you want to protect her fine with me. Just remember any pain you'd cause me you'd receive as well."
She didn't like the way her brother smiled after she said that. "That's right Shinoko. Any pain you feel I feel too. But don't forget it works the other way around." He raked the claws of his right hand across his left arm from the knuckles to the shoulder, then did the same to his right arm, enjoying the sight of Shinoko hissing in pain. The blood stained her kimono and trickled from her hands. 'I should do this more often.' he thought, relishing the idea of causing the bitch so much pain until she punched him in the stomach, knocking the air out of him. She grabbed him by the tail to keep him from falling and brought them both to the ground and set him against a tree.
He looked up to her and saw she was still smiling. "Oh Nikuta," she purred, "You know you shouldn't do that. Especially if you don't want father to find out his oldest son has just about fucked every woman in his court." Nikuta's eyes got big; he knew she was serious. Shinoko could smell the fear and smiled. "Good boy," she said, then picked up a rock and bashed him over the head hard enough to knock him out and give herself a headache. She found a cave and threw him in it and plugged it up with a boulder. 'That's good. The only way he's getting out is if I help him. Now time to get back to waiting for that bitch to leave the house. Then I'll make sure no one sees her alive again.' With that "happy" thought she went back to her perch to wait.
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As Katsue fell asleep in her bath Kouga arrived at his pack's den. They were all happy to see their leader was back.
"Hey Kouga, what took ya so long?" asked Ginta.
"What do you think stupid? He was trying to make Kagome his mate before the hanyou could!" barked another. A demon that would appear to be in his late forties to a human started chuckling. "I think his reasons for hanging around Inuyasha and his group are no longer because of the human. I think it is the cat demon Katsue that now holds his heart."
Upon hearing that Kouga turned toward the older demon and growled. "You think I have a taste for fleabags now Uchyo?"
"No, no Kouga," Uchyo shook his head. "I'm saying your heart knows you can't have Kagome and that it might see something in this cat demon that your head doesn't."
"I DO NOT LIKE HER!" thundered Kouga. "SHE'S A STUPID, UGLY, WEAK FLEABAG THAT CAN'T SAVE HERSELF FROM HER OWN KIN! Her sister was kicking her ass and I had to save her."
That had everyone in the pack giving Kouga weird looks. A demon called Origa spoke up, his voice filled with confusion. "If she's stupid, ugly, and weak why did you save her?" They stared at the tribe leader expectantly for his answer. Kouga went very pale before saying, "Somebody was going to and I got there first. Now lets forget about the fleabag and go hunting."
Without another word they went out to hunt. It didn't take long for them to get enough meat but something had caught the attention of the pack leader's nose. It was familiar but also different in a way he couldn't place. He went in the direction of that intoxicating scent and the rest of the pack followed. When he reached a house where that smell came from he stopped the others. He turned to Uchyo and gave him a questioning look. "You're the oldest one here, do you know who lives here?"
Uchyo nodded. "A cat hanyou named Aiyana lived here about twenty-five years ago for ten years. I remember coming here with your father a few times. The first time was about twenty-three years ago after a fight where we both got badly injured. Aiyana found us outside her doorstep, brought us in the house, fixed us up, fed us, and sent us on our way the next morning saying we could come back anytime we wished. Kami that woman was too kind to be any part demon. We visited her once a week after that, sometimes her mate was there but most of the time she was alone. She welcomed our company and we were happy to give it. She was a wonderful, beautiful woman. A temperament of an angel, golden hair, cat ears, and tail, beautiful features and her eyes were stunning. If my memory serves me right they were-"
"Emerald green?" interjected Kouga. Uchyo shook his head. "No hers were silver. But her little girl's were. Eighteen years ago, five years after we first met her she asked us to be there when she had her first child, a girl. You were about five and your father brought you with us. You and she got along quite nicely since you first saw each other and could barely be separated. That is until fifteen years ago."
"What happened fifteen years ago?" asked Kouga, his curiosity peeked. He didn't remember the woman or the little girl, but he would have been a child then. It would explain why this place felt so damn familiar. Uchyo frowned then. "Aiyana was beyond killed, she was so brutally butchered we could here her screams from the den. She was killed on the night she turned human right outside her home, the little one seeing it all from the safety of the house. When we got there her mate had already come to bring the little one away. Your father died regretting that we couldn't get there in time. The house has been empty ever since."
One of the members of the pack, Ginta, finally spoke up after the story. "Well someone is in there now," he said, pointing to the rising smoke from the chimney. Kouga nodded, "Ginta, Hatkagoo, go in there and check it out." The two demons nodded. Uchyo raised his hand to stop them but they were already at the door. They reached for the doorknob only to be blasted back into four of the others in the tribe loud cursing and howling the result.
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Katsue woke up from the sounds of people outside and jumped out of the tub. She quickly dried off, pulled on her mother's old dress, and went outside to see what the commotion was. It startled her to find a pack of wolf demons in human form a few feet from her doorstep but what shocked her most was that Kouga was with them. Then her shock turned to anger as she yelled, "KOUGA WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?"
Kouga was the first to look up and his heart just about stopped. 'Is that Katsue? She looks so beautiful. GYAH what am I thinking, she's a fleabag.' He mentally berated himself for his first thought, even though it was the truth, she did look beautiful. Katsue's attention on Kouga was broken when she heard one of the other demons whistling. She growled, baring fangs at Origa. "What are you whistling at wolf?"
Origa walked close enough to make her to take a step back. He smiled and said, "You're a very pretty kitty." A few of the others joined in on the whistling and "cat" calls as the demon that was disturbingly close to her tried to grab her wrist. She jumped over him and landed right in the middle of the rest of the pack. Two of them grabbed her arms and kept her from moving. Origa was coming back towards her when Uchyo stuck his leg out and tripped him, then pulled the others off her. He growled at them to keep away and turned toward Katsue.
"Forgive my younger companions, they get excited too easily," he said and Katsue nodded in agreement. "Kouga is this your pack? Because if it is you should really learn how to handle them." This had Kouga turning red with fury. 'HOW DARE SHE TELL ME HOW TO RUN MY TRIBE!' "Yes Katsue this is my pack and I would rather you not tell me how to control them."
"Someone better or else you may end up with a few less males in your pack." This remark had Uchyo laughing. "You must be the cat demon he's been talking about. He said you had quite a mouth; that you just proved. But how he could say you are ugly, stupid, or weak I don't know." What he said made the girl's vision go red around the edges as she looked at the object of her rage. She growled at the arrogant wolf demon. "I can take you calling me ugly, in your eyes I might be just that. I can take you calling me stupid, most of the time I do let my anger cloud my judgment. But you dare to call me WEAK YOU BASTARD! I'LL SHOW YOU WEAK!" She lowered her head and charged him, ramming him in the stomach and knocking the wind out of him.
When he got over the shock of her ramming into him, Kouga knocked her into a tree. "Fine wench," he barked, "its fine with me if you wish to prove your weakness in front of my pack." As the cat demon got up he went and kicked her in the stomach. When she got back up this time her claws tore threw his armor and raked painfully across his chest. Before he could recover she got behind him and slammed into the back of his neck, sending him flying into a member of his pack. By now the other demons had formed a ring around the two fighters, all cheering except Uchyo when Kouga rose and punched Katsue in the stomach and brought her to her knees. He wasn't anywhere near done with her as he kicked her up into the air then jumped up after her and body slammed her. She lost focus when she landed, blinking a few times before she realized her opponent had her legs straddled and both arms pinned. She couldn't move. The cat demon looked over to see that the sun was going down.
"KOUGA GET THE HELL OFF OF ME! YOU WIN JUST LET ME GET BACK INTO MY HOUSE!" She was squirming to get off of him, her eyes filled with panic.
Kouga grunted, trying to ignore what her wriggling was doing to him, and kept on pinning her. 'Why the hell is she making me feel like this? Why do I want to…? STOP THINKING ABOUT IT OR YOU'LL DO IT!' "Why should I? I thought you wanted to prove you weren't weak." She was whimpering, "I'LL PROVE IT TOMORROW JUST LET ME GO! FOR TONIGHT YOU WIN!" He looked at her with curiosity. 'Why's she so desperate to get back into her house?' Then he smirked. 'Lets see how desperate she is.' He leaned down and whispered low enough for only her to hear, "I want you to yell out to everyone here that you're a weak bitch who can't protect herself and can't find someone who loves you because of it. I'll let you off then."
"You bastard." She was now crying and had given up on wriggling out of his grip. 'I could have beaten him any other night.' She shook the thought from her head. 'It doesn't matter now. You still have a few more minutes before the sun goes down all the way. She cleared her throat but her voice still sounded a little cracked and filled with shame. "I'M A WEAK BITCH WHO CAN'T PROTECT HERSELF AND CAN'T FIND MYSELF SOMEONE WHO LOVES ME BECAUSE OF IT! I SHOULD JUST GO HOME AND LET MY SISTER KILL ME! Unless you'd put me out of my misery." She whispered the last part for his ears alone. She looked up hopefully into his eyes. "Go on, kill me. I'd rather let you do it than let that bitch Shinoko have the satisfaction of it."
Kouga couldn't believe what he was hearing. Katsue, the cat bitch from hell who would fight tooth and nail with, curse out, annoy, and confuse the shit out of him every day was just going to lay there and let him kill her. He could almost smell her desperation as she relaxed beneath him and stopped struggling. What was it that was tearing his heart apart seeing her like this? He noticed she was mumbling something so leaned his head closer to her lips and listened.
"Afterlife I welcome you with welcome arms, no matter what you bring. Unless it's pink and fuzzy, then you can screw that and send me to the place where it isn't." He smirked at that remark. 'Figures she'd go out saying something like that. Smart mouthed wench, I should snap her neck right now.' With that thought he brought his hands away from her wrists and put one on each side of her head, as if to twist her head off her body. It scared him that now that her arms were free she wasn't trying to stop him, just closing her eyes and bracing herself for the deathblow. 'SHE'S FUCKING SERIOUS! She really wants me to kill her.' was the first realization that hit him like a ton of bricks. The second one was more startling for him as the first. 'I can't do it. I probably couldn't have done it the first day we met. But what the hell is this feeling that's tearing my heart apart because of her seriousness?' What he did next didn't shock anyone but himself and the girl beneath him. He pulled her head up towards his and kissed her gently on the lips.
The pack of demons that were still in a circle around them weren't surprised; they all figured he had a thing for her from how much he talked about her, even if what he said were all complaints. Kouga's action had surprised him momentarily before he decided this felt right and deepened the kiss, not caring about the audience. Katsue was frightened half senseless. 'WHY THE HELL IS HE DOING THIS TO ME? HE CAN'T HAVE FEELINGS FOR ME, NOT NOW NOT EVER! IF HE DID HE WOULDN'T HAVE MADE ME EMBARESS MYSELF IN FRONT OF HIS PACK!' She shuddered, from both the kiss and the fact she was starting to change. 'This is probably his way of apologizing if he does care about me. But I can't let him see me like this.' Before she lost all of her strength she pushed him off and ran away. He was about to go after her when some of the demons got in front of him.
"DAMN Kouga you lied when you said that girl was ugly."
"Though you were right about the weak part."
"Why did you start kissing her?"
"EVERYBODY SHUT THE HELL UP!" screamed Kouga. His breathing was ragged and as if he just ran hundreds of miles. He growled at them to back off. "Uchyo you stay here in case she comes back, the rest of go back to the den." He went off in her direction after that, leaving no room for argument. Uchyo smirked smugly. 'Aiyana your girl is just like you. I just hope her end won't be just like yours.' "You heard him, go back to the den!" he barked. The others left, then the demon that was left behind went into the house, glad to see no one had revoked his entry into it.
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Katsue kept running after she changed, though her pace slowed. She ran like her life depended on it. She knew Kouga would come after her, but she also knew he knew she would be afraid so he would take his time. Kami did she wish it wasn't that way. Kouga and his pack had been the only thing that kept Shinoko from striking her down earlier; she didn't like crowds when she did her torture. 'BAKA,' she thought, 'YOU SHOULD HAVE STAYED WITH THEM! BETTER THEY FIND OUT WHEN YOUR HUMAN NIGHTS ARE THAN GETTING BUTCHERED BY YOUR OWN SISTER!' Tears started streaking down her face. She felt so weak without her demon senses and claws and fangs. She glanced at a golden bang in her face and smiled. 'At least I keep my hair and eyes. BUT GOD DAMN IT WHY DO MY SENSES HAVE TO BE DULLED!' Then she heard a voice that sent paralyzing shivers down her spine and made her stop in her tracks.
"Don't stop running little sister, it's fun to track you down. Especially when your scared." Shinoko's voice echoed in her head. It didn't take much more to get her running again. She could hear the chilling laughter all around her, but she knew where the bitch was. She looked to her side to see Shinoko smiling a wicked smile at her. Katsue looked back ahead of her and narrowly turned before ramming into a tree. She decked under a fallen tree, not really believing it would be a good shelter but too afraid to care. Shinoko slashed the tree to pieces without breaking a sweat. Katsue started running again, this time not stopping for anything unless her bitch half sister stopped her.
"WHEN WILL YOU LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE?" she shrieked as she threw herself over a large rock, landing roughly on her right arm. 'Shit I think it's broken. Oh well it'll heal when the sunrises if I live that long.' She got back up and kept on running. Unfortunately for her, Shinoko got tired of chasing and appeared in front of her. She smacked the younger girl down and started punching and kicking her in the stomach, legs, and face. When she stopped Katsue was barely conscious and coughing up blood. Shinoko had stopped her beatings for a moment because she had a question that had been on her mind for weeks that she just had to have answered. She made herself comfortable besides the girl and smiled.
"I think it's time we have a heart to heart."
That had to have been the scariest words she'd ever heard Shinoko say. Katsue looked at the older cat demon like she was crazier than she already was. "Heart to heart? About what bitch?" 'Do I have a death wish or what?'
Shinoko just frowned and scratched her half sister across the face. "You should respect your older siblings. Now I want you to tell your big sis all about that wolf demon, Kouga I believe his name is?"
Katsue panicked, thinking, 'Why does she want to know about him?' She shrugged, "He's a rude, arrogant, smug jerk who I travel with. What more can I say?" She hacked up a bit more blood and she heard her unwelcome company 'tsk tsk' her. "Now Katsue you can't tell me you have no feelings for him. I can tell if you lie, and you know what I do to liars." She lightly ran a claw down the girl's arm, just enough to draw blood.
"Fine, he's a cute jerk too." For that she received a slash across the face. "What did you do that for?" "You told me a half truth," purred her sister. "Now answer me these last three questions. Did you feel something when you kissed, do you love him, and do you really want me to kill you? Yes and no answers only. The penalty for lying is my fist through your chest."
Katsue had to think hard about the first to questions, the last one was easy. She did feel something when Kouga had kissed her, she couldn't name it but she did feel something. It felt so right too. 'Do I love him?' she asked herself. She had known him for a little more than two months and he wasn't really nice to her, but despite that something drew her to him. It was as if her heart knew something about him she didn't. She was startled out of her thoughts by Shinoko's voice.
"Well Katsue? How do you answer?"
She sighed, praying what she said wouldn't get her killed. "Yes, yes, no." Shinoko smirked. "I knew it. Well now that you've answered I guess it's time to get rid of you. I'll tell Kouga you loved him before I send him to hell to join you."
Before Katsue could utter another word the crazy bitch shoved two of her fingers down her throat. She tried to struggle but it didn't work, Shinoko had her pinned. It didn't take long for her to feel like something was being drawn out of her and that she was slipping away. Then the feeling was gone as Shinoko was pulled off her by a whirlwind of dust. Then all went black as she heard a man shout, "YOU'RE NOT KILLING MY WOMAN BITCH!"
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Kouga had lost Katsue's scent for a moment when he noticed a change in it. He also noticed a vaguely familiar scent. It only took a moment for him to place it and he cursed. 'Damn it I see why she wanted back in her house. She knew her bitchy sister was nearby. But when she pushed me off why didn't she go back inside? I'll ask her later.' He picked up his pace until he came to the edge of a clearing. He saw a human Katsue on the ground and Shinoko kneeling beside her. He cursed himself for not noticing that she had smelled more human than usual and was about to go take her away when he heard them speak. He stayed in the bushes downwind and watched and listened. He gritted his teeth when he watched the bitch scratch Katsue's face. He listened to what she said after that.
"You should respect your older siblings. Now I want you to tell your big sis all about that wolf demon, Kouga I believe his name is?"
'Why the hell does she want to know about me?' He listened to Katsue's response. "He's a rude, arrogant, smug jerk who I travel with. What more can I say?" He growled low but stopped when she coughed up blood. Shinoko frowned. "Now Katsue," she said, Kouga starting to really hate the sound of this bitch's voice, "you can't tell me you have no feelings for him. I can tell if you lie, and you know what I do to liars." It took all of his self-control to not go at that cat bitch when she cut his Katsue's arm. When the hell did she become mine?' He didn't hear Katsue's response except the word "cute". The response ended in her getting slapped. 'I'll tell you when moron, the first time you stayed up all night and cursed each other out. Or maybe, even before then? Why did I think that?'
"Now answer me these last three questions. Did you feel something when you kissed, do you love him, and do you really want me to kill you? Yes and no answers only. The penalty for lying is my fist through your chest." His ears perked at the first two questions and scowled at the last thing Shinoko said. 'You put your hand through her chest and I'll rip your head off. Wait a minute, what if she says no about the kiss or if she loves me and she's telling the truth?' The girl who was lying on the ground gave him the answer. "Yes, yes, no." He stood there shocked; not noticing what Shinoko said next but definitely saw when she shoved two fingers into the girl's mouth. Kouga had no idea what the fuck the demoness until it hit him like a ton of bricks. Some cat demons could steal and destroy souls. "Shit no," he said under his breath then ran at full speed at the creature trying to kill his woman. He looked like a dust storm as he knocked her away into a tree, screaming at the top of his lungs. "YOU'RE NOT KILLING MY WOMAN BITCH!"
He kneeled down to check on Katsue. She was unconscious and badly injured, possibly fatally in her human form. He brushed hair out of her face and rubbed her bruised and cut up cheek. "Your still beautiful, demon or not. Any injuries she gave you will heal, just hold on till sunrise." With that Kouga scooped her up into his arms gently. He didn't look back but just ran for her life, smirking when he heard the bitch scream in fury. He got back to the house in no time, it was the first place he thought of going. He banged on the door, almost knocking it off its hinges. Uchyo came to the door. He glanced from the terrified look on the tribe leader's face to the unconscious girl in his arms then stepped aside.
"It has been a while since I have seen her in human form but I would recognize her anywhere," said Uchyo as he ran into a bedroom and came back with a futon to lay Katsue on. Kouga placed her down carefully and looked at his old friend. "Will she be alright?"
Uchyo frowned as he looked down at the girl. "She has a long way to go before sunrise." He saw the worry on the younger demon's face grow. "Don't worry, from what I have seen she is her mother's daughter from head to toe. She wouldn't have given up in that fight you were having earlier if it hadn't been for this," he nodded his head down to her, indicating her transformation. It then hit Kouga that the injuries he had inflicted to her in the fight wouldn't have healed before she changed. That made him twice as guilty about this. "Shit I'm a asshole. Should've just let her get up. Instead I might have just helped kill her." He touched her broken arm, causing her to moan. He pulled back and decided to keep his hands to himself. He decided to take his mind off of the fact that she ay not live through the night. "So this is the daughter of the cat hanyou you were talking about?"
Uchyo nodded. "I can't believe you wouldn't remember being at this girl's birth. You were the first thing she saw after her parents. The way she looked at you you'd think she thought you were the most interesting thing on earth. Are you sure you don't remember?"
Kouga looked as if he was straining to remember what the other was saying but shook his head. "I'm guessing before two months ago it would have been fifteen years since I've seen her. I was eight, I don't remember a lot of things from when I was eight and under." Uchyo rubbed his chin then he snapped his fingers, getting an idea. "You never called her Katsue."
"Huh?"
"You never called her Katsue," exclaimed the demon, smiling at his realization. "You called her Sue-chan." Kouga shivered. That name did sound familiar to his ears. Memories of being with a little golden haired cat demoness appeared out of nowhere. One memory was the most vivid and the one that made him close his eyes to see it more clearly. When he opened his eyes it was like it was happening all over again.
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The adults weren't letting him see anything. The cat hanyou Aiyana, or Aunt Yani as he called her, was screaming, her full-blooded cat demon mate Osuneko was holding her hand and saying, "It will be alright Aiyana, this one will be alright", his father Ookami and Uchyo were also reassuring her, and some miko that had experience as a "midwife" to demons was looking up Aunt Yani's skirt and kept telling her to push. 'I hate being five, no one lets me know anything,' thought the young Kouga. He pulled on his father's tail, getting the older demon's attention. He looked at his son and smiled. "What is it pup?"
"What's going on dad?" asked the young wolf demon. 'I wish he wouldn't call me pup.'
The older demon put his hand on the boy's head and ruffled his hair. "Aunt Yani is having a baby, son."
On that note the Aiyana let out one blood-curdling scream followed by soft cries coming from the bundle of blankets that was now in the miko's arms. The woman placed the bundle in the arms of the exhausted hanyou. "Your child Lord Osuneko and Lady Aiyana, a baby girl. May she live for many years." With that the miko left.
Kouga scrambled next to Aiyana to see what the baby looked like as they pulled back the blanket covering its face. The demon child looked at the tiny creature in the woman's arms. The girl had fuzzy gold ears on top of her head, a lot of golden hair for a baby, emerald eyes that weren't used to the light coming in the room, and still had a little bit of blood on her. The boy felt something furry and damp wrap around his left wrist. He looked at it to find a golden tail had wormed its way out of the baby's blankets. The squeal he let escape his throat had all the adults laughing.
"She seems to like you," said the new mother after she stopped laughing. "New born cat demons do that to check the things out. If they don't let go of someone they've wrapped their tails around they usually become very attached to them." Her mate nodded in agreement and turned to Ookami. "You better be careful with your son, she may seek him as a mate when she's older."
"If she's anything like her mother Kouga will be lucky to have her wanting him for a mate," said Ookami. Uchyo nodded in agreement. "She maybe a few years younger but when she's of age she'll be a very beautiful demon. So what shall you name her?"
Aiyana looked at the baby in her arms, who was reaching a tiny hand out to Kouga, then to her mate. "Could we name her Katsue after my mother?" she pleaded, making the smile on her mate's face even wider. "Your mother was a great demon, I wouldn't object to our daughter being named after her." He nuzzled her neck then kissed her brow gently.
"Yuck, mushy love stuff!" cried Kouga, still trying to release his wrist from the baby's tail. Then he felt tiny claws graze his ear and send shivers down his spine. He looked at the baby girl. She was staring at him intently, reaching out to him. He decided there was no harm in letting her hold his hand and let her grab on to one of his fingers with her tiny hand. 'DAMN, she has a strong grip. Why don't I wanna pull away?' He let the girl hold onto his hand and smiled. Her tail still held onto his other wrist but he had stopped caring, he was caught in the child's eyes. He didn't know she was just as caught in his. But a certain hanyou did. Aiyana tapped Kouga on the shoulder, barely getting his attention.
"Yes Aunt Yani?" said the boy. She smiled at him. "Do you want to hold her?" He nodded eagerly and carefully took the baby from her mother's arms. She was still holding onto him with her hand and tail, but now her head was snuggling into his chest. He could hear her heartbeat, so soft, probably softer than her skin. His brain hadn't totally processed her name when her parents said it, only the last part. "Is Sue-chan really a demon? She seems more like an angel." What he said had all four adults staring at him, but he hadn't noticed. He just kept holding onto her.
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When the memory stopped Kouga finally noticed Uchyo was staring at him. He also noticed that Katsue was reaching out towards him. He looked at the demon for answers; Uchyo shrugged. "Give her what she wants. I'm going back to the den; you can take care of her from here. She'll make it, don't worry." Kouga nodded and returned his gaze to Katsue. When he heard the door close behind Uchyo he got onto the futon next to her and put her head on his chest, not really surprised to feel her arms snake around his waist. He made sure the broken arm wasn't the one beneath him before putting an arm around her shoulder. This felt so right to him.
"Sue-chan do you remember what happened back then more than I do?" The question fell on deaf ears.
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A/N: That's chapter five. Hope it didn't bore you. I swear the title sounded good when I started writing.
Katsue: "YOU HAD ME HUMAN, ASLEEP, OR HAVING MY ASS KICKED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE STORY!"
Kouga: "Shush. Your still human & injured."
Katsue: "SHUT UP! STOP CARING!"
Aradia: "I'm gonna stop this before anything happens. This is AMR telling you people to post & tell me what you think & with her words of wisdom: Though you may love someone & know they love you, sometimes it's still hard to admit to it. *cough* KATSUE&KOUGA *cough*. SEEYA"
